The redistricting commission should rise above partisanship and insist on those standards. In Iowa, districts are redrawn by professional legislative staff. Not a single one of the state's 99 counties was split to create its five new congressional districts. In Indiana, Mahern had to slice up five counties just to separate Buyer from his constituents. The politicians are chuckling.
Voters ought to be furious.
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