Opinion | Redistricting commissions, juries and electric vehicles are success stories. - The Washington Post

… Michigan is another success story. The Detroit Free Press reports: "A yearslong effort to bring an end to gerrymandering in Michigan — the practice of drawing voting districts to benefit one political party — hit a key milestone Tuesday when the members of the state's inaugural citizen-led redistricting commission adopted new congressional and state legislative districts." Democrats who had previously been disadvantaged by gerrymandering wound up with a fairer map. "The maps adopted by the commission would still favor Republican candidates though nowhere near to the same extent as the current maps … One measure for the congressional and state Senate map used by commission indicates the new maps would favor Democrats." Commissions are not infallible, but they do point to more equitable and credible process that no longer allows politicians to pick their voters...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/29/science-courts-redistricting-successes/