Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map
by derwiki on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @10:56AM
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Software would be relatively easy, enacting the policy difficult. Who would want to relinquish their power to a computer?
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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map
by wybiral on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @11:02AM
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And the concerns of bias in the algorithm could still be there. As would the fear of hacking. Neither seem as big of an issue as flat-out intentional gerrymandering and could be mitigated by open review process.
But it's unprecedented which makes it hard to enact without a lot of momentum.