Paul Fidalgo was Communications Director at FairVote.

Rep. John Tanner of Tennessee hosted an unveiling on Capitol Hill of the Redistricting Game, a new online computer game that simulates the tug-of-war of political gerrymandering for congressional districts. Tanner is pushing the Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act, a bill that will give the power to draw district lines to independent commissions instead of politicians with vested interests. The game even offers players a chance to play under the rules of that bill so they can get a glimpse of how things could be different.

FairVote’s chairman John Anderson - a former congressman and independent presidential candidate - was also at hand for the event on Wednesday, and offered his insight on the importance of taking partisan calculations out of the redistricting process.

The New York Times Caucus Blog covered the event, as did NPR’s Andrea Seabrook.

Other posts by Paul

• Nomination by Attrition - October 25th, 2007
• Cary Voters Sing the Praises of IRV - October 25th, 2007
• FairVote Announces Upgrade Democracy Video Contest Finalists! - October 23rd, 2007
• The Senate Loses its Cool: The Undemocratic Ways States Fill Senate Vacancies - October 12th, 2007
• Of Campaigns and Crosswords: Pluralities as Poor Political Reflections - October 4th, 2007
• The Primaries' Premature Nomination Problem - September 28th, 2007
• Barry Bonds, Blast-offs and Ballots: What the Fate of a Baseball Teaches Us about Voting - September 20th, 2007
• The President of Everyone? Crucial Issues Suffer when Most Voters Don't Matter - September 13th, 2007
• Upgrade Democracy Video Contest News Update - September 11th, 2007
• The First Shall Be Last: The Dangerous Decline in Primary Turnout - September 7th, 2007