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A comment on Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts with Genetic Algorithms.

Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by gillesjacobs on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:34AM (#23613014)
Gerrymandering is a danger to democracy and it is great that researchers shine light on the different trade-offs of districting criteria.

This website seems like a great demonstration of the fairness and competitiveness trade-offs.

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Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by usrusr on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:22AM (#23615087)
I'd argue that every voting system that has gerrymandering as a possibly error mode is inherently dangerous. No amount of antimandering could ever be more than a temporal band-aid. There are many examples that successfully combine local representation with proportional outcome.
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