I completely agree that district boundaries should be taken out of the hands of the political parties.    It's been done in other states, at least I know Iowa did this quite a while ago.   When the purpose of a new district goes from correction due to population movement, to "what sort of district line will favor my political party," the intent of census and correction is lost.

If you want to eliminate the imbalance of the electoral college, then you must surely want to also remove the rule of 2 senators per state.    The idea was to bring the colonies into a shared union, but to do so, the founders also did not cave to populist decision making where a simple majority wins everything.   The right of low population states to have an equal voice is important to that union.     It could be said the low population of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakota's deserve to have an equal voice in our nations future considering their impact on food production systems and trade balances.