Rep. Sean Casten

It kind of follows a cube root and it's about 500.

So at least you say, well, we know this works because other governments kind of run on this formula.

There are people smarter than me who have argued that you increase the odds, the chance for gerrymandering shenanigans here.

If you expand and I can argue either side of that, I think broadly speaking, you are going to get more districts where there are more people, which means that I think you counter some of the reason why the electoral college stuff works out is that essentially large rural areas are overrepresented.

Urban areas are underrepresented since the people are in that levels that out.

You're going to skew more votes that way.

We added a provision that said if any state has more than two districts allocated, they can, at their choice, go to multi-member districts with ranked choice voting because there's some really interesting analysis that if you –

If you have a multi-member district, it's really hard to gerrymander so that the top two are of the same race and same party all the time.

You can do that for the top one, but it's hard to do it for the top two.

And so if you get a situation where me and whoever comes in second are representing the same communities, you should, in theory, get rid of some of the polarization in Washington.

But I'd put it that way.

And we're open to other ideas, but that's the way that we've structured it.

So I would say there have always been a number of members.

You know, Don Beyer from Virginia is very thoughtful on this.

Earl Blumenauer was great, still is, but not a member of Congress anymore.

Jamie Raskin is very thoughtful.

I think the challenge that all of us get in, we're elected every two years.

We got to stay focused on things that the public cares about.

And I think the number of members who think about this stuff and care about it is much higher than the number of members who are willing to say, I'm going to prioritize this over all the things that the voters are telling me to prioritize at any given time.

And so-