Citizens Must Drive Electoral Reform

By Heather Gerken
Special to Roll Call

November 15, 2005

In his column on the failure of redistricting initiatives to pass in Ohio and California last week, Stuart Rothenberg gets the diagnosis right (“On Redistricting, Voters Have Spoken Up for the Status Quo,” Nov. 10). But, like most U.S. reformers, he overlooks a promising cure for the problem he identifies — one that could help reformers overcome the hurdles they face in getting reform through the initiative process.

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