Draw The Line

Kudos to Mike Musgrove for his WaPo column on the coolest political game to hit the internet: THE ReDISTRICTING GAME gives you the chance to draw new district lines in three fictional states under a few scenarios.

The redistricting debate is the most important reform issue in the United States right now.

Jonathan D. Aronson, a professor and political scientist at USC, is a little exasperated that Americans sometimes worry about the potential for voting-machine tampering when there may be a more fundamental -- though, perhaps, drier and harder-to-explain -- problem in how districts are drawn.

"My question was, why would you need to rig the voting machines if you'd already rigged the election by making seats safe?" he said.

The game is more fun than you might think: it's actually tricky to make the districts as partisan as your party bosses require. In case you don't think this is a problem, check out the two districts I live (alternately) in: New York's 28th and Massachusetts' 4th.