Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by breatheoften on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:21PM (#12916791)

What if some of the super rich elites leveraged their economic might to counteract the effect of gerrymandering -- perhaps an endowment that explicitly offered a geographically sensitive housing subsidy based on a normalized model for how precincts _should_ be shaped could have significant effects if backed by the capital of a Gates or a Zuckerberg foundation?

I believe that mathematically fair models for precinct shape have been described[1] -- such model could provide the basis for estimating the gerrymander induced vote-reflects-voter-will-error -- and the subsidy system could encourage population shift to try and approximate the results that would occur if the precincts had actually been drawn "fairly" ...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8796

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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by intended on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:51PM (#12917575)

You mean like soros or the Koch brothers?

Yeah no.

Be involved and be informed, locally If not at a state or higher level.

- do note, that politicians (humans) have long since "hacked" the human cortex. They program you, and other humans by finding authority escalations, buffer overruns, Trojans and privileged executions all the time.

Right now, malware itself has become the OS.

To fix this, people need to be aware of how politics and cognition works.

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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by deadringerr on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:46AM (#12918060)

I was thinking about this as well. I just learned about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact[0], which would at least cover situations (like this election) where electoral vote results that don't jive with the popular vote.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

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