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Citizen led redistricting isn't all that great. Michigan just went through their first redistricting and it was just as much of a shit show. There were attendance issues, potential open meetings act violations, the whole thing went way over budget, and majority minority districts got eliminated. Republicans sued to prevent it from ever happening, and Democrats sued after the maps came out.

Overall the balance did swing from Republican favored to slightly Republican favored. Democrats did win a majority for the first time in a long time, but they also faced historically bad Republican candidates.