Author here. Though I obviously can't be certain, I suspect the reason it's still showing 1 signature is that the petition hasn't crossed the threshold where it becomes publicly searchable.
I'm not sure what's going to come of this petition; I'm not a political organizer, I don't have mailing lists of people to forward this to. I'm just a young engineer who thought it was a real shame that nobody has been talking about practical, long-term solutions to the real problems that are facing our country. I think this is exactly the type of problem we should be applying technology to solve. If you agree, please sign the petition. Your signature will help this reach beyond my personal network and be seen by people who don't already know about the research that's been done in this area. Even if it just encourages a few more people to read up on what gerrymandering is and how it affects our representation I'll consider it a win. I'd also really like to encourage people reading this to talk about it with their family and friends. As a species we've made technological advances in so many areas: how we communicate, how we heal each other, how we kill each other. It's high time we start applying technology to affect positive change in our governance as well.
The supreme court is way ahead of you. They made it defacto legal last year for citizens to bring a referendum in their State to create an independent redistricting committee instead of allowing state legislatures and the sitting party to redraw boundaries: http://www.npr.org/2016/12/05/504188630/questions-of-race-an...
These committees would be free to use whatever criteria they deem appropriate to determine new boundaries but by far the most popular rallying cry around this issue has been, "One person, One vote" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/us/politics/supreme-court...
Which seems a bit short sighted to me. It has been trivial for politicians to create boundaries that circumvent this "common sense ideal" by tactics such as creating "representative" districts that encircle prisons comprised of mostly poor minorities.
There have been some initiatives by political consulting firms to draw better boundaries (Civis and Blue State Digital come to mind) but I think you're definitely on the right track with a grass roots initiative like this.
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I'm not sure what's going to come of this petition; I'm not a political organizer, I don't have mailing lists of people to forward this to. I'm just a young engineer who thought it was a real shame that nobody has been talking about practical, long-term solutions to the real problems that are facing our country. I think this is exactly the type of problem we should be applying technology to solve. If you agree, please sign the petition. Your signature will help this reach beyond my personal network and be seen by people who don't already know about the research that's been done in this area. Even if it just encourages a few more people to read up on what gerrymandering is and how it affects our representation I'll consider it a win. I'd also really like to encourage people reading this to talk about it with their family and friends. As a species we've made technological advances in so many areas: how we communicate, how we heal each other, how we kill each other. It's high time we start applying technology to affect positive change in our governance as well.
These committees would be free to use whatever criteria they deem appropriate to determine new boundaries but by far the most popular rallying cry around this issue has been, "One person, One vote" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/us/politics/supreme-court...
Which seems a bit short sighted to me. It has been trivial for politicians to create boundaries that circumvent this "common sense ideal" by tactics such as creating "representative" districts that encircle prisons comprised of mostly poor minorities.
There have been some initiatives by political consulting firms to draw better boundaries (Civis and Blue State Digital come to mind) but I think you're definitely on the right track with a grass roots initiative like this.