Supreme Court faces major decision on partisan gerrymandering

The Hill ^ | 06/17/18 | Lydia Wheeler

[Neidermeyer]

I’d like to see a rule where all districts must be rectangular with the exception of having natural boundaries like rivers or align with existing boundaries such as county lines.

[GOP Poet]

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[TBP]

6-3 partisan gerrymandering is OK, if Democrats do it.

[zeugma]

The court has twisted itself into pretzels on the entire issue in the past. Similar to the hole they dug themselves over 'public accomodation' laws, there really is no logical way out of the hole without overturning some precedent.

We now have the technology to easily make completely unbiased electoral maps generated by computer. The programmers should be given Monte Carlo data, for the state and create a program that will create compact and contiguous electoral boundries from it. Once everyone is satisfied that the program generates unbiased maps, feed them with census data, and take the map produced. The program should be entirely open source, and the data completely public so anyone can validate the results because the process would then be perfectly deterministic. Of course, that would be far too logical and unbiased, so it will never be done.

[1Old Pro]

What’s going on here, who says we must have equitable representation. If that’s the case why doesn’t it apply to senators, we have two left wingers in NY and neither represents all of upstate NY.

[lurk]

Mark lines by voting district, requiring the closest thing to a square or a rectangle of no more than 2/1 ratio of sides to end. If we can bus blacks and whites to schools, we can cram voters together in districts.