Huffington Post (10/24/21) on Independent Redistricting Commissions (NATIONAL)

The Huffington Post reports on independent redistricting commissions across the nation, both their promise and their pitfalls. Democrats have supported such commissions, but have awakened to their mixed results. On the one hand, commissions may be "preventing Democrats from reaping the partisan advantages of gerrymandering to the degree Republicans have." On the other hand, in states such as Michigan, Democrats "acknowledge they’re better off [with a commission] than with the alternative: extreme gerrymanders handed down by Republicans" when the legislature controlled the line-drawing. Other states with commissions mentioned in the article are Colorado and Virginia.