America Doesn’t Have to Hold Unfair, Unrepresentative Elections

By Eric Maskin and Robbie Robinette

Mr. Maskin is a professor at Harvard. Mr. Robinette is president of Better Choices for Democracy.

This year’s gerrymandering wars are the most vicious in recent memory. The sudden scramble to redraw electoral maps is all the more striking because it comes after a decade of concerted efforts — such as the creation of independent redistricting commissions — to curb partisan redistricting.

Some reformers are thinking bigger, and they should. Even in less partisan times, the country’s traditional voting system........

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