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Well that's one less thing about voting weaponized. Now if only gerrymandering could be undone, it's the real nightmare.
by ck2 4y ago
Well that's one less thing about voting weaponized.
Now if only gerrymandering could be undone, it's the real nightmare.
- WalterBright 4y agoDo you know about the cut-the-cake algorithm? A piece of cake is to be divided among two kids. Kid A cuts the cake, Kid B gets the choice of slice. It's fair. I recall reading about a mathematician who devised a cut-the-cake algorithm that would work for gerrymandering. Naturally, nobody adopted it, because nobody in power wants fair gerrymandering.
- wnoise 4y ago"A Partisan Districting Protocol with Provably Nonpartisan Outcomes" https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08781 https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08781 Very cool. Though it does freeze in the two-party nature.
- WalterBright 4y agoThanks for finding it!
- cudgy 4y agoHow would this work in reality? One party committee proposes 5 voting district maps that lean toward their desired outcome. The other party chooses the least damaging one. Not sure this helps much. Or how about 5 random maps that evenly divide the state? Voters vote on the maps and most voted map wins.
- WalterBright 4y agoSee the other reply which has a link the paper.
- ShredKazoo 4y agoGerrymandering happens because districts are constantly getting redrawn for population changes. What if we took the opposite approach, and instead of making it so every district had approximately the same population, made it so each representative's vote was weighted by the population of their district? Could then use county boundaries (assuming the number of counties is >= the number of representatives) Could even weight by # of votes obtained rather than district population, to incentivize being the preferred representative for as many people in your district as possible. I like having a few pro-consensus forces in our politics in a time of polarization.