The 2022 US House maps are set to be the least competitive in a century

Political science says a lack of competition will decrease accountability, sow polarization and hasten democratic decline

Reid Epstein and Nick Corasaniti reported for the New York Times this weekend that politicians are “Taking the Voters Out of the Equation” when drawing this decade’s new boundaries for Congressional maps. As a refresher, the US government takes a new nationwide Census every ten years, and states must redraw their maps to have equal shares of the populat…