H. R. 1 would transfer the power to draw congressional districts from states legislatures to independent, nonpartisan commissions.
On Friday, the House passed a voting rights bill aimed at ending corruption in politics. H. R. 1, also known as the „For the People Act of 2019,“ would do a lot of things: get dark money out of politics, establish an automatic voter registration system, strengthen ethics codes, require the president to disclose 10 years of his or her tax returns, and more. These items will likely stay on the Democrats‘ wish list: Many have already doomed the bill as „dead on arrival“ in the Republican-controlled Senate, Vox reports.
One of the bill’s provisions, however, addresses an issue that voters already started to push for in the mid-terms: ending partisan gerrymandering in congressional elections, a practice in which politicians redraw the voting districts to their own advantage.
