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Old 05-13-2016, 09:52 AM
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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.
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Old 05-13-2016, 10:33 AM
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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.
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