Pritzker Compares Illinois Dems to Kindergartners?

During his interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker was confronted with the reality of the state's wildly gerrymandered Congressional Districts.

In a sad attempt to make light of this serious issue, Pritzker tells Colbert that his Democratic predecessors "we handed it over to a kindergartner class and let them decide..."

It would be funny if it weren't so very serious. The maps disenfranchise conservative voters all across the state and undermine our republican form of government.

While gerrymandering is a bipartisan practice, evidence suggests that in the most populous Democratic states, the extent of overrepresentation is greater than in Republican-led states. This dynamic implies that conservative voters may be more significantly disenfranchised in blue states through district manipulation than Republican voters are in red states.

Some propose algorithmic redistricting—using neutral criteria like population equality, geographic compactness, and political neutrality—as a potential remedy to reduce partisan bias in map-drawing.