Re:Utility Ghost: Gamified redistricting with partisan symmetry
by madrox on Friday December 21, 2018 @02:18PM
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I'm not convinced how we elect representatives is a problem. Gerrymandering seems an annoying an unfair way to elevate certain people, sure, but I don't think fixing this is the panacea to toxic politics that everyone thinks it is. You simply have to look internationally at other systems to see they also have problems...different problems from ours, sure, but not exactly better.
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Re:Utility Ghost: Gamified redistricting with partisan symmetry
by mathfan on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:00PM
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The Supreme Court has already stated that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional, we just don't have a mechanism to systematically detect it after the fact. That's why it's so hard to fight in the courts. If possible, I think it's a good idea to prevent unconstitutional gerrymandering, even if it doesn't solve all of our problems.