A lot can happen in two weeks.

When I wrote Aug. 2 about undercutting the ongoing gerrymandering debate by changing the number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in a century, there was little indication Democratic members of the Texas State Legislature would flee to Illinois and New York in order to deprive their Republican colleagues of the quorum needed to conduct a special session expected to include a mid-cycle redrawing of Congressional maps.

That development kept the story not he front burner for several weeks, which is perhaps why my inbox logs another missive every few days from readers with ideas for how to improve the electoral environment.

CW, from Channahon: “I understand why the Senate was created as it is, to give each state an equal say in

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