GOP Exec: Redistricting Prone To Fail

Every ten years, each state across the country is tasked with drawing new Congressional and state legislative boundaries to accurately reflect population changes and to accommodate the Constitutional principle of “one-person, one vote.” In most states, democratically elected legislators who reflect the political will of the people draw the boundaries; in fact, this took place in Idaho up until the mid-1990s when the process of redistricting was assigned to a six-member commission made up of equal parts Republicans and Democrats.  Due in part to an even-numbered commission, Idaho’s redistricting process is systematically designed for failure and has proven to be an unnecessarily expensive process that doesn’t accurately reflect the political makeup of our state where Idaho Democrats don’t hold a single Congressional or Statewide office, and control less than 20% of seats in the Idaho legislature/ Jonathan Parker , Idaho GOP executive director. More here.

Question: Rather than listen to the self-serving political parties, isn’t it time for Idaho to appoint a nonpartisan citizen committee that would base congressional and legislative lines on common sense not politics?