Next year, elected officials at all levels of government will be feverishly focused on picking their voters before their voters pick their officials in the next election. Yes, redistricting is just a few months away.

But there’s a better gerrymandering going on out there, in states across the nation. Jeff Reichert’s groundbreaking film Gerrymandering opened nationally earlier this month and has picked up reviewed in major newspapers like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post and magazines such as Entertainment and Variety.

This weekend, Gerrymandering comes to Washington D. C.’s brand-new West End Cinema. Director Reichert will speak after performances on Friday and Saturday; he will be joined by FairVote executive director Rob Richie after the 7:20 pm showing on Saturday – Richie appears in the film, speaking about getting outside the redistricting box through moving toward proportional voting systems.

FairVote also spotlights efforts to reform redistricting. This week, FairVote legal intern Brian Bennett, published two valuable posts at Fairvote.org pertaining to congressional and state reform efforts.

One is an overview of congressional redistricting reform legislation in the current Congress. The second profiles the November 2nd ballot measures on redistricting reform two of our largest states, California and Florida.
Stayed tuned!

Jo McKeegan, Democracy Fellow at FairVote