A bill making its way through Legislative Hall in Dover would take the district line drawing authority away from lawmakers and give it to a special commission. Naturally, that effort has drawn opposition mostly along party lines. Gerrymandering. The word is loaded with negative connotations of partisan politics. Gerrymandering is defined as using the process of redrawing district lines to benefit one political party. Delaware's Senate and House districts are redrawn every ten years to coincide with the results of the U.S. Census. The process is done by leaders of both chambers, currently all Democrats. But a proposal from state Senator Bryan Townsend would put an end to that and would create an independent commission to redraw the lines.