Expert: Why We Need Redistricting Reform
Brian Gaines has watched Illinois politics for 20 years. He says the current system of drawing legislative and congressional maps is bad and he hopes reformers can do something before the next re-map in 2020.
Gaines says there is too little transparency and too few people are involved. The current map for Illinois’ congressional district he says was created to help Democrats. He says the public is not well served by maps that engineer outcomes.
“Whether rigged to help incumbents or to help one major party and harm the other, unfair maps mar democracy”, he writes in a recent essay.
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