There should be no accounting for race, gender, or local political boundaries. These have been gamed by both parties.
Someone has already done it, using a distributed computing client:
Impartial Automatic Redistricting
You can run the client yourself, and contribute.
See the website for "before" and "after" maps, and the algorithm that he uses.
No, the practical impact would be to elect more white democrats, fewer black democrats and fewer republicans.
Neither party will go for this.
the Dhimmicraps won’t because minorities are about all teh constituency they have left.
The Republicans won’t because, quite frankly, when you pack minorities (who are overwhelmingly Democrats) into a few districts, you wind up packing the other districts with Republican voters.
I am of the opinion that redistricting should follow these guidelines:
1) determine the number of voters that is to be used as the per district target.
2) start with the address of the state capital building and draw a circular-ish pattern that encompass enough residents to come within +/- 3% of the target. Then align the district by adjusting the boundaries by:
- first use zipcodes
- then use streets
- then use physical geographic boundaries (rivers, hills, etc)
3) When the first district is completed, move to the next most populated city and starting from that city hall, repeat the process for the 2nd district.
4) continue and repeat this process until there is only 1 district that remains to be assigned. That district would be all others.
5) The final process would be the “trading” phase that would be used to compact the districts by trading population zip codes to minimize the size of the districts and smooth the boundaries. Boundaries being defined again by zip codes, streets and then geographic boundaries.
While this system is not perfect, it would work to minimize the really oddly constructed districts.
“Colorblind” voting districts are actually ILLEGAL for Southern states under the Voting ‘Rights’ Act. We have to create “majority minority” districts just for them.
Voter fraud's traditionally done in black communities...
Those who don't show up are 'voted'... by the precinct captains. That fact might have something to do with high 'participation' rates.
Maybe the FBI could post a few cameras outside of random voter stations and stop voter fraud. Oh - wait - the FBI works for democrats and lives in the make believe world of PC... forgot...
The dirty little secret about gerrymandering is that it’s done specifically so that it will create “minority-majority” districts that will elect blacks and Hispanics.
The Democrats originally engineered it specifically for this purpose. They failed to realise at the time that in doing so, they would enrich the surrounding districts with whites, making them more Republican.
When Democrats talk about “ending gerrymandering” and “making redistricting more fair,” what they’re basically saying is that they’re willing to throw black and Hispanic elected officials under the bus so as to try to become more competitive in white districts (with white candidates, by and large).
Democrats are still the most racist pigs in the country. History proves that.
Why can’t ANY GOP candidate other than Dr. Carson point this out?
I’m supposed to believe blacks with Iphones can’t get ID’s?
FU DEMS