Quote:I believe so, from what I understand they get re-drawn every 10 years, maybe it's 12. Seems so much more practical to me for them to just make the counties the state districts and make the representatives proportional to population just like each state does in the house of reps. 

 

edit: heck if they don't want that many reps they could even combine some of the rural counties, for example Clay, Putnam and Nassau. 

 

It's up to state legislatures to do it.

 

It's every 10 years - to be in sync with census data.

 

It's not as easy as it looks, as numerical levels have to be met, so you have to combine areas to make the numbers come out right. Then you have to meet the racial diversity mandates. Then you have to make sure your political party (whomever has the majority at the time of redistricting) comes out ahead as best you can.

 

Then you have to hope it passes muster with the courts.

 

Try it sometime and good luck. How they did it before computers ...

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