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Proposal:
The algorithm for drawing district boundaries shall be public.
A voting district for a local government such as a city shall be contained entirely within the city.
A voting district for a regional government such as a county or province shall be contained entirely within the county or province and outside the boundary of any city.
In urban areas, draw concentric circles around the population centers. Divide the outer bands into sectors with approximately similar population counts. If there is a defining geographical feature such as a mountain or river, the boundary can be drawn along the geographical feature.
Intent:
Part of ensuring that elections are fair is to ensure that the district boundaries are drawn fairly.
Discussion:
Drawing the district boundaries on a map should not be done on a whim, especially not by partisans because they might try to draw boundaries in a way that would give them an unfair advantage in future elections.
It doesn’t need to be exact because voting districts don’t determine the constituency.
The possibility of gerrymandering can be eliminated with voting districts and representation in the legislature, as described in voting districts and representation.
However, it is still useful to have a reasonable algorithm for selecting voting district boundaries.
Anyone should be able to take a map and one or more public datasets with all the information that will be used by the algorithm to draw boundaries, apply the algorithm and arrive at the same or very similar result.
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