Praise For Iowa’s Redistricting Regime
This morning National Public Radio broadcast a report praising Iowa’s system for drawing legislative and Congressional district boundaries. We’re the only state in the nation that lets the voters pick the Congressman instead of letting the Congressmen pick their voters (throught their control of redistricting). Jim Leach and Mike Gronstal were interviewed.
The non-partisan system dates back to a ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court and an subsequent law signed by Robert Ray in 1972.
We’re also envied for our system of selecting judges and voting periodically on whether to retain them in office. And for our first in the nation Presidential caucuses. Now if we could add a clean elections VOICE, we could really be heard!