That's unlike the presidential and congressional elections, where it might take a few years for them to do anything that would really effect any of us. The county government is a different story though.

First, I agree with the editorial in The Daily Sun. With the former county commission comprised of commissioners from all over the county and only one from The Villages, it was easy for the four from the less populated districts to "gang up" on The Villages for the purpose of maintaining the significant revenues from our taxes coming into their districts. That's exactly what happened of course, and that was what lead to the current One Sumter structure. I think there was a tea party one night long, long ago in Boston about something like taxation without representation.

You are also correct when you observe that "we vote for representatives from our district/state". I might opine that doesn't always work too well either, particularly in the U.S. House of Representatives, after the gerrymandering of district borders to better assure the re-election of incumbent congressmen. I think at least one of them went to jail in Texas over this issue, didn't he?

While I am opposed to the referendum proposal to return to the archaic and unfair structure of the county board, I wouldn't be opposed to some sort of re-districting. But I would endorse such an idea only if three requirements were met...

• The redistricting and mapping of districts be done by an independent company or agency, similar to the way such re-districting was done in the State of Iowa.
  
• Secondly, each "new" district should have essentially the same number of residents and/or registered voters.
  
• Lastly, the re-districting should be re-done every three years to accommodate the rapid and dramatic growth in certain areas of the county.