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Ranked choice
Popular vote
All this goes away.
Gerrymandering can still be effective with ranked choice. It's harder, but you can still do both cracking and packing, you just have to model top-2 or top-3 preferences.
Popular vote is already the norm for gerrymandered areas.
I mean we should definitely implement Ranked Choice up and down the ticket, and implement Popular Vote for President, but neither actually solves Gerrymandering.
I'd like to say "independent" redistricting organizations are the solution, but the practical success of those is mixed. The incumbents just pack those with cronies, or ignore them, sometimes with the assistance of the judiciary.
In Australia it’s kinda 4 different things that stops gerrymandering from being a problem:
We have RCV, but you’re completely right: that’s a solution to a whole different problem… and independent commissions are only part of the solution - you need to ensure their independence with rules that make it infeasible for them to be anything but non-biased
On the last bullet point, we probably need to federalize voter qualification and registration, first. Whether you can vote or not depends on what state you are in (felony disenfranchisement, e.g.). Some states let you register on voting day; others close registration weeks before voting day (and some incumbents try to purge voters as close to the deadline as possible). It's really quite a mess. :(
I think if we made it easier to vote, we wouldn't have to make it mandatory -- federal holiday on voting day, open/unrestricted early voting for a least a week before voting day. I'm against mandatory voting unless there's a "[X] Democracy is dead / a sham in $District" protest vote option or something similar. Incumbents already claim my support when I'm just trying harm-reduction and I actually support someone that never made it into the primary for wanting to tax the rich.
Yeah I think that’s the general consensus outside of Australia, but we fucking love it here… there have been a few very unpopular suggestions to repeal it, and we keep proving that it’s near universal that we love it
Nope, that would only help with state-wide and national elections, not for district-level ones. If they're gerrymandered to be a majority republican district, the winner will be a republican even if there is ranked choice and popular vote. Or vice-versa if gerrymandered to be a Dem-majority district.
Which is why they pump the uninformed majority of voters full of the idea that the current system will always save them. My father in law has a degree in political science and still thinks that we'll vote Trump out in 2028 to fix everything. Decades of things generally continuing to function for the middle class white demographic has brainwashed every democratic voter over 50 I know to believe we're still well within the acceptable bounds of politics.