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Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by antishatter on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:50AM (#23614626)
That of course defeats the purpose of smaller districts getting a voice and not being crushed by larger districts.
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Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by IgorPartola on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:52PM (#23617587)
Yes. That’s a feature, not a bug. 10m people in a city should get 10x the say than 1m people in the surrounding rural land. Why would you ever want it to be different other than trying to skew elections towards giving rural residents disproportionate amounts of voting power?
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