Commending the students, etc., of Virginia College and University Legislative Redistricting Comp. (SJ416)
Introduced By
Sen. John Miller (D-Newport News)
Progress
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
Description
Commending the students, faculty sponsors, and organizers of the Virginia College and University Legislative Redistricting Competition. Read the Bill »
Status
02/11/2011: Passed the House
History
Date | Action |
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02/01/2011 | Presented 11104524D |
02/01/2011 | Laid on Clerk's Desk |
02/03/2011 | Engrossed by Senate |
02/03/2011 | Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
02/03/2011 | Introduced bill reprinted 11104524D |
02/04/2011 | Received |
02/04/2011 | Laid on Speaker's table |
02/11/2011 | Agreed to by House by voice vote |
03/07/2011 | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ416ER) |
Comments
I feel that redistricting should follow certain limits:
We have 100 delegates 40 senators with 10 house of representive members. The state would be divided by 100 section along county lines or cities or towns. Each senate seat would be 2.5 delegates seats. With 4 senate seat to become 1 house of representive.
The elector count for president should be base on who carries each the house of representive seat. With the 2 senator seats be for the popoular vote. This way the popular vote would be fairer. The winner take all is not very fair.
While that's a wonderfully simple principle, and a great ideal, the reality is that it's really hard to redistrict like that. There's a wonderful website that I just can't recommend strongly enough, Dave's Redistricting App, where you can redistricting Virginia's Congressional seats yourself. It's a simple, map-based approach. Unfortunately, it's only for Congressional seats—it doesn't do state legislature districts. But it's worth it just for the exercise. I've spent a few hours on the site trying to create the sorts of districts that you provide, and I'm just not sure that they're feasible! By way of warning, the site is really engaging. If you mean to spend ten minutes on it, an hour could easily go by. :)