How to Limit Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering is the practice of creating convoluted Electoral Districts to steal representation from the current minority party. Individual neighborhoods or even homes are included or avoided to give the majority party control over the next election.

People have written dissertations about complex ways to prevent this, but my solution is simpler. I call it the six boundary rule.

It means the boundary for an Electoral District can have no more than six boundaries, where a boundary is a simple structure such as a water boundary, the middle of a street, or a geographic boundary such as a state or county limit.

This approach gives a little wiggle room for giving a slight advantage to the majority party, which is allowed, but prevents the abuses we see today.