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Re:What convinced the Supreme Court to take the Wisconsin ge... by bumblebeard on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @05:13PM (#14756736)
Iowa's redistricting commission is truly non-partisan: no politicians are allowed to participate.

Seems to work fairly well for them just looking at the maps and variety of results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa's_congressional_districts

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Re:What convinced the Supreme Court to take the Wisconsin ge... by s73ver on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @07:37PM (#14757601)
Everyone's going to be somewhat political. So no politicians is a good rule, but it still would be good to know the political affiliations of the people doing the districting.
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