Here was my suggestion to rid ourselves of it: "One simple revision to our election process will both eliminate the effect of gerrymandering and break the gridlock. I propose that at both the congressional and state levels, eliminate districts and change to cumulative voting. Thus, if a state has 15 seats in the House of Representatives, each citizen has 15 votes to allocate among the candidates as the elector wishes. This should enable candidates from lesser populated areas to accumulate enough votes to finish in the top 15 if they garner enough support among voters in their no-longer-extant districts. The elimination of districts should break the stranglehold that the parties have over their elected members and restore 'country before party.'"