Voters or residents: how should we draw our electoral map?
In recent months, the Right in both Britain and the US have been accused of trying to manipulate electoral rules to increase the influence of their supporters, and diminish the power of left-leaning voters. Both cases raise important questions about the objectives and principles underpinning electoral democracy, and specifically who elected representatives are supposed to represent.
At the heart of the dilemma is the question of how electoral districts should be drawn.
