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Easy enough, let's make political gerrymandering unconstitutional, as it always should have been. Politicians should not be choosing their voters, that's 180° backwards.
Eliminate the idea of districts altogether. Voting for county seats? All the county citizens votes are pooled together. State level? Same thing, all votes count the same no matter where you're from in the state.
The complexity of the splits serves only to gerrymander.
I like the German electoral system, they vote for individual candidates and then a party. The candidates get seated first, and then additional members from the party's ticket are added to create the proportion of representation that each party received.
No gerrymandering and no two party system, win-win!
You can have an independent commission drawing the maps, and people have even developed algorithms that can do it in software so there's no human involved.
Computer programs exist that can draw legitimate districts. Lawsuits can challenge districts, and if found to be based on race or political affiliation they can be removed. Bad faith actors will forever be a problem though.