SCOTUS Invites Republicunts To Go Fuck Themselves

[vulcanlogician]

 I wonder why though. 

You can pack and crack with any shape.  The squiggles are super good at it, but not required.

It really does seem there is a fair and practicable solution to be found to the problem. I mean, for one thing we have the wolves guarding the hen house. Maybe district maps shouldn't be drawn and voted on by legislative bodies. Perhaps some group which is free of bias. Maybe even a computer program into which you feed population density information and out pops a state map with its districts already drawn.

It seems to me that if someone wants to go gerrymandering, they will use a specific set of tactics.

Squiggles are one way to tip the scales. See the picture below:

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Obviously we can stop such blatant attempts at gerrymandering by making district drawers work within a ratio between the perimeter and area of a district. (Like if the perimeter is X the area must be within Y of X2). Anyway, according to that article I mentioned in my previous post, which didn't go into much detail, that wouldn't solve the problem. But I don't see how it couldn't at least help.

Another idea just occurred to me. You've heard of Rawls' veil of ignorance, right? Instead of legislators voting on a map directly, they would only get to see the discrepancy between registered party voters--but they wouldn't know who the discrepancy favored.. It would take some serious plotting to to form this process, but I think it could be done.

This article had some basic ideas: https://www.policymap.com/2017/08/soluti...mandering/

Anyway, I was in a thinky mood this morning and felt like directing some energy toward the problem.