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Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline... by CWuestefeld on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @11:13AM (#10304549)
With a quick visual survey of their results, it seems this is a particular weakness of this algorithm. It appears to me that it's tending to split large cities into chunks and tie each chunk in with a huge outlying area.

Not only does that inconvenience polling places, but I think it does impose some socio-political outcome. I'm not sure whether it's good or bad, but the decision to not have cities voting as a block, and instead to include slices of them with their suburbs and outlying rural areas, certainly impacts the way representation will be determined.

Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @11:14AM (#10304561)
True. Rural residents will often have completely different issues than city dwellers. To include them in a slice of the city pie, is probably going to entirely disenfranchise them. Depends on the numbers.