Both parties gerrymander. It’s dishonest.
The Republicans are very good at the game and control legislatures that can gerrymander 174 congressional seats and hundreds of state legislative seats. The democrats control state legislatures that can gerrymander XX congressional seats and hundreds of state legislative seats.
There are three ways to get them to stop:
Voter ballot initiatives - Getting a referendum on the ballot and having voters vote on it takes time and money. And the legislatures can argue that the initiative is against the state constitution. The parties will fight ballot initiatives, as they would rather share gerrymandering power than have fair elections. Voter sponsored initiatives are gaining momentum. But it may take in a few decades to change the country, especially if both parties are fighting the initiatives. In the meantime, the parties are harming our democracy by disenfranchising all the voters in the gerrymandered districts, and in many ways, the voters outside of the districts.
In Michigan, Voters Not Politicians has done and outstanding job of leading a ballot initiative, gathering support for it, and then defending the initiative from the state legislature.
Strategic Registration -
Withhold National and State Party Donations - Supporters of the parties can refuse to make donations to the state and national campaign funds, unless the party unilaterally abandons gerrymandering. (The democrats have done so in Virginia, where the democratic-led state legislature has passed laws requiring non partisan district mapping. If campaign funds to the state and national committees dried up (with donors refusing to contribute unless the party passes anti-gerrymandering legislation), non partisan redistricting would immediately become a legisative priority for the party in power and the one that is
States Where the Republicans Gerrymander
It should be noted that the politicians in the party that is getting squeezed benefit from gerrymandering. They may have fewer seats, but those seats are very safe seats. As such, those politicians in safe seats are in no hurry to fight for non partisan districting. Their job security depends in large part to the other party’s disenfranchisement of their voters.
States Where the Democrats Gerrymander
States Where the Two Parties Gerrymander Together to Disenfranchise Voters
In these states, the political parties adhere to the maxim - the enemy of my enemy is my friend, treating the voters as their enemies, working together to disenfranchise all the voters in their states, so that the political parties can exert the maximum amount of control over their voters.
States Where Neither Party is Gerrymandering and the State Has Free and Open Elections
The Democrats in Virginia have set an admirable example