Commending the students, etc., of Virginia College and University Legislative Redistricting Comp. (SJ416)

Introduced By

Sen. John Miller (D-Newport News)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
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

DateAction
02/01/2011Presented 11104524D
02/01/2011Laid on Clerk's Desk
02/03/2011Engrossed by Senate
02/03/2011Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
02/03/2011Introduced bill reprinted 11104524D
02/04/2011Received
02/04/2011Laid on Speaker's table
02/11/2011Agreed to by House by voice vote
03/07/2011Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ416ER)

Comments

gale rose-carmack writes:

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.

Waldo Jaquith writes:

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.

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. :)