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One way for that to happen is if party support is evenly spread throughout the region; then however you draw the districts the result will be the same. In that
by mjw1007 9y ago
One way for that to happen is if party support is evenly spread throughout the region; then however you draw the districts the result will be the same.
In that sort of situation it doesn't seem to be reasonable to call what's going on "gerrymandering"; I think the finger of blame should be pointed (if anywhere) at the system of single-member-constituency plurality voting.
- phailhaus 9y agoOur voting system is definitely an issue, but if we want to use the efficiency gap as a metric of gerrymandering then I think this is a big problem. As it stands, the efficiency gap treats a 75-25 split as a "perfect election", which means that it's actually a measure of how far elections are from this ideal. So if we start using the efficiency gap, then there will be a huge incentive for states to draw lines to be as close to 75-25 as possible, which is obviously not what we want. It could even further polarize the country.