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

Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by coldcode on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:52AM (#23614644)
Likely it means that big cities would get all the reps and the rest of the state gets nothing.
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Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by jgeada on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:32AM (#23615259)
As that is where most of the people live, why is it wrong? Why does largely unpopulated land get a vote?
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Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by IgorPartola on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:45PM (#23617484)
This. Why do voters living in rural areas get more weight to their votes? This is obviously more pronounced in the Senate, but clearly also a problem in the House.
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Re:Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts wi... by dhosek on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:28AM (#23615192)
A better route would be proportional representation. You vote for a party-ranked list of candidates, and the top n% of the list gets into office based on the fraction of the vote the party received. Unlike single-member plurality voting, this makes third parties viable.
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