Support a New Federal Law That Has Meaningful Redistricting Reform to Prevent Gerrymandering

In 2012, Democrats candidates for the House of Representatives got two million more votes than the Republican candidates. However, Democrats got less than fifty percent of the seats. This is due to a democratically-dangerous process called gerrymandering. Republicans and Democrats have both tried to destroy each other by ramming their members into tiny little compact congressional districts. Republicans have done this in states like Pennsylvania and Democrats have done it in states like Illinois. We, the undersigned, call on the Obama Administration to call for and advocate for redistricting reform to represent the dangerous gerrymandering that has been going on for too long. We must remove political data from gerrymandering and encourage compact districts when they can be applied.