Margit Gratzl: Redistricting not brain surgery

The designing of voting districts should not be political but simply decided by the number of eligible voters.

In this day of computers it should be easy to have voting districts that are roughly square or rectangular (5 percent variation) and contain roughly the same number of eligible voters (again 5 percent variation) regardless of previous voting records, race or whatever. This would truly reflect the will of the people and be true democracy. Am I dreaming?

This story was originally published December 8, 2016 at 10:56 AM with the headline "Margit Gratzl: Redistricting not brain surgery."