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Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by c54 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:31AM (#23612985)
This is really well done! Do you have analysis of what this would do nationwide or across multiple states? Optimizing for competitiveness is a metric I hadn’t considered but seems particularly valuable especially towards increasing voter turnout.
Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by jojobas on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:21AM (#23613536)
How is it valuable? Having a "red" or "blue" district means the congressman is somebody most people can get behind, "our guy in the parliament".

Being around 50% gives you a compromise that nobody trusts and nobody feels the stake in their country.