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This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering
- grayje 11y agoThe same story from 2014: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/06/03/this-computer-programmer-solved-gerrymandering-in-his-spare-time/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/06/03/this-... Not that it isn't still very, very relevant...
- DerekL 11y agoAlso, the president mentioned redistricting reform in his State of the Union address. http://www.vox.com/2016/1/12/10758738/obama-state-of-the-union-2016-gerrymandering http://www.vox.com/2016/1/12/10758738/obama-state-of-the-uni...
- DerekL 11y agoIn the algorithm's redistricting of Maryland, two of the districts have parts on either side of the Chesapeake Bay. The algorithm should consider the actual travel time between two points, and not the straight-line distance.