Evidence on how New York’s chronically dysfunctional legislature is a result of not having independent judges or bureaucrats redistrict.
“States where bipartisan commissions or judges draw district lines have far more competitive elections, and routinely see control shift between parties…. The arrangement turns the notion of bipartisanship on its head. Opposing factions go at each other, tooth and claw, over every issue where the public would want them to compromise. But in the one area where they are expected to battle, elections, they do not…. New York State legislators are literally as likely to die in office or be arrested as to lose at the ballot box.”
This, along with improving voting machines, is one of the fascinating areas of politics where real progress could be made, yet is a completely non-partisan issue.
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