Hillary is guilty, and Russia has the proof

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Danzig

you do know who draws the states maps after a census? who drew them after 2010? it's why, altho the elections show a lot more votes for dems than reps, the reps hold both houses of congress.
I support what cali and ar have done, having non partisan boards draw the maps. gerrymandering is supposed to be banned, yet it still happens. one of the many things wrong with our political system.

Ideally even a non-partisan board wouldn't be necessary. Computers could draw districts depending on the population density, which is what is supposed to drive the districts in the first place within the state borders. The census data could be fed into an algorithm to adjust the district and show the before and after maps to make sure nothing crazy happened.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Ideally even a non-partisan board wouldn't be necessary. Computers could draw districts depending on the population density, which is what is supposed to drive the districts in the first place within the state borders. The census data could be fed into an algorithm to adjust the district and show the before and after maps to make sure nothing crazy happened.

that would work too. anything that takes it out of the hands of a party, I'm all for it.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Ideally even a non-partisan board wouldn't be necessary. Computers could draw districts depending on the population density, which is what is supposed to drive the districts in the first place within the state borders. The census data could be fed into an algorithm to adjust the district and show the before and after maps to make sure nothing crazy happened.

Great Idea

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by jms62

Great Idea

Maybe I'll prototype something one of these days. It would be a neat project, and both sides have people who would be interested in it.

I'd use a small sample set and show how the algorithm would work. Scaling it up to handling the residences of 300+ million citizens would be exponentially more difficult.