Gerrymandering and Rotten Boroughs

I'm afraid it's time to get rid of the hoary tradition of political gerrymandering. The politicians have gotten too good at it since the dawn of the computer age. They can now divide districts right down to a street address. What used to be a crude political art, has now become sophisticated science.

The result is the re-creation of the old English rotten borough system where incumbents were guaranteed election to Parliament. A 98% incumbency rate for the House of Representatives proves that we now have rotten boroughs everywhere.

Your vote has no chance of deciding an election in your congressional district when you have been gerrymandered into a 60-40% minority, Republican or Democrat. If you want higher turnout we'll have to make political contests more competitive.