Redistricting Part 2: Can We Ensure Fair Districts in Elections? | Politics with Paul #97

Redistricting is fraught with partisanship and underhanded tactics...but can it be 100% fixed? Making fair districts and preventing gerrymandering is an extraordinarily difficult goal for a lot of reasons we don't realize...or want to admit. Today's episode explores the issues with rules that currently govern the redistricting process today, how we as citizens make it easier to gerrymander, several proposals for how to make redistricting fairer, and whether it is truly possible to make the redistricting process impartial.

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(0:00) Introduction (1:03) Recapping Current Criteria in Redistricting (2:55) Issues with Current Criteria in Redistricting (11:44) Considering the Future When Redistricting Now (17:14) Do We Also Gerrymander Ourselves? (21:32) How Do We Fix the Redistricting Process? (25:22) Would Independent Redistricting Commissions Fix Gerrymandering? (32:43) Would Expanding The US House Fix Gerrymandering? (39:59) Would Proportional Representation Fix Gerrymandering? (43:59) What Even is a "Fair" District? (48:15) Can We Ever Ensure Fair Districts? (50:38) Want More Fair Districts? Then Actually Hold Officials Accountable (55:45) Closing, Please Share and Subscribe, Links