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Could do a variation, one party decides all the slices and then parties take turns picking in rounds, but the slicer always picks last.

• vlovich123 3y ago
  As the sibling to your comment noted that cake slicing only works like that if there’s a homogeneous preference for slices between parties but that’s not the case with districts. What I don’t get here though is what is the other party picking in this scenario. Is this saying in lue of voting just give both parties equal amount of districts to represent? Then what’s the point of cake slicing?
• bena 3y ago
  That simply does not work. The "slices" are done so that each slice have roughly the same amount of people. So if one party has sliced things so that all the slices are nicely cracked and packed, the "picking" just doesn't matter. The slicing is the picking. However, a variation of your idea is to have each party take turns drawing districts. But that doesn't really work, because you'd quickly learn that the winning strategy is to draw districts to maximize the other party's voters. Because you want to force the other party to draw districts favorable to you.