Efforts to reform nation’s election system feeling impact of Supreme Court’s redistricting ruling | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Election reformers got a major assist Monday from the Supreme Court, which upheld states’ use of nonpartisan commissions, as opposed to lawmakers, to draw their voting districts. The question that remains unsettled: whether it will really do much to reduce the hyper-partisanship plaguing the country, one of reformers’ main justifications for the commissions. In a 5-4…