[justlurking]

The only way to truly remove the politics is to have a mathematical formula that divide the land and population into districts. And this formula gets followed no matter what.

I agree. The formula should be something like: minimize the length of the edges of every district, so that the total length (of all district edges) is as small as possible.

Exceptions should be made for political boundaries: counties, cities, etc -- so that a city or county is not split between two districts unless there is simply no way to draw the districts equally without doing so.

However, I don't know how you require every state to do it, without trampling on state's rights.

[Hardastarboard]

I’m thinking it’s simple geometry - every district has to be as close to a square as possible, and make the squares large enough or small enough to encompass the same number of people in each Congressional District.