How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising

Re:How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising by mpalczewski on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @07:48PM (#31347488)

The rural populations seems would not like a redistricting where every district is dominated by its largest population center. Essentially this voronoi type redistricting would push more power towards cities at the cost of rural areas.

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Re:How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising by samatman on Thursday May 12, 2022 @06:59AM (#31352163)

Correct, as I said, it isn't fair, merely objective.

It isn't possible to get fair by drawing lines around people which are smaller than the actual sovereign boundary under discussion. You can hand that power to the government, an 'independent commission' (the government with extra steps), or an algorithm run by the government, those are your options. All outcomes will fail fairness, this has been extensively studied.

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Re:How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising by jchanimal on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @08:49PM (#31347900)

In the USA that is an unambiguously good thing.

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Re:How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising by zaphar on Thursday May 12, 2022 @12:41AM (#31349385)

No it isn't. There may be some aspects of it that would have good results. But there would also be aspects that would have poor results.

Pretending that larger population centers will make better electoral decisions and that those decisions will not ignore the legitimate needs of more rural areas reeks of unjustified superiority and is unbecoming.

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Re:How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising by Akronymus on Thursday May 12, 2022 @06:58AM (#31352159)

I certainly would deem city like zoning for rural areas to be a nightmare scenario. And that is just one of the MANY MANY policies that would make problems.

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