A nice preview read for tonight's Gerrymandering the Movie presentation at Neuqua Valley (6 pm) can be read here by Matt Hanley of the Aurora Beacon-News.
The new Congressional and State Assembly districts must be re-drawn by May by Democrats (they hold the majority in Springfield) or a non-partisan board will take a shot. Illinois lost one Congressional seat after the last census.
Who knew that in 1981, after the 1980 census, Democrats during divided government got the power of the pen by winning a drawing out of a stove pipe hat? The hat thing must have made the pols pretend that Lincoln would have loved the idea.
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Perhaps it would be good for Illinois to have Congressional districts drawn by a neutral third party not involved with electoral politics. Statistically speaking, this would allow for a better chance of districts accurately representing the cross-section of people living in the area (it's closer to a simple random sample than districts drawn by politicians) while, considering the corruption that seems to be a trademark of Illinois politics, it might help to ease the intense partisanship that Illinois faces today.
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