Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races • Hacker News Board

Re: Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races

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Post by dlcarrier » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

vaadu wrote: post #27

If both parties MAXXED OUT on gerrymandering ... https://x.com/BenHart_Freedom/status/2050337190996000963

I've always presumed that gerrymandering would benefit rural areas over urban. It's nice to see data backing that up. Here's the direct source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hating-gerrymandering-i...

Re: Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races

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Post by M95D » Wed, May 06, 2026, 9:30 AM UTC

deckar01 wrote: post #29

M95D wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then, why have groups at all? Direct democracy!

Mainly participation. Voter participation is already very low. It would be interesting if voting was more like jury duty and a random sample of the population was selected to vote per issue. That way there are no termed representatives to corrupt and participation is always significant and uniform.

Representation by random selection instead of popular vote was already proposed as a fix for many of the democracy's disadvantages.

Re: Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races

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Post by deckar01 » Wed, May 13, 2026, 3:57 AM UTC

M95D wrote: post #32

deckar01 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mainly participation. Voter participation is already very low. It would be interesting if voting was more like jury duty and a random sample of the population was selected to vote per issue. That way there are no termed representatives to corrupt and participation is always significant and uniform.

Representation by random selection instead of popular vote was already proposed as a fix for many of the democracy's disadvantages.

I don’t remember it being covered in any of my government classes, and I had not considered alternatives to electoral representation until it started being so openly corrupted. Sortition USA looks interesting.

https://sortitionusa.org/