“Democrats and Republicans are both responsible for having processes that are shrouded in secret,” said Rebecca Green, a law professor and co-director of the Election Law Program at the College of William and Mary. “It is just in their DNA to sort of form a huddle and figure out how to do this, and that’s the problem. It’s sort of a coin toss to have power when the lines are actually drawn and maps have to be redrawn. We can’t expect legislators to not act in their self interest.”