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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by odonnellryan on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @11:13AM (#16116043)
How would the software work? You want to put communities together. Ideally, you don't want your community to be split in the middle because of a congressional line.

Not saying that isn't happening now, it is. But software doesn't solve that issue.

So we created this great problem: congressional lines. Then we try and fix it. Representation is hard. Why not do away with the problem entirely? Remove this type of representation.

Radical, yes, but what does congress do anyway? ;)

Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by goialoq on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @02:12PM (#16117908)
> you don't want your community to be split in the middle because of a congressional line.

why does this matter? congresspeople vote on national issues, not local issues.

Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by odonnellryan on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:09AM (#16205431)
Ok then why have these lines at all? That is my argument.