"The ideal of a citizens´ commission is good. We should not have politicians picking their voters. Voters should pick their politicians and perhaps the districts lines in which they run. But ideals often prove impractical. In the case of the Citizens Redistricting Commission, impractical would be an upgrade.

When I testified in front of the Commission in March of this year, I warned them of the voters´ cynicism - the sense of many that their vote doesn´t count because district lines are rigged and the system, i.e. gerrymandering, is unfair. I asked them not to hire a line-drawing firm that did not have the experience required and noted that what experience it had was too partisan.

After the Commission discarded my advice and that of many others, I publicly decried the Commission´s process for hiring Q2 in an article entitled Caesar´s Wife and the Redistricting Commissions. From the original no bid contract attempt to hire them, to the dumbing down of the Commission´s so-called qualification standards, to disqualifying their competition, The Rose Institute, on bogus grounds, to not disqualifying Q2 - the Commission´s hiring of Q2 was beyond suspect.

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