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I still don't understand why we don't use algorithms to fix gerrymandering. https://code.google.com/p/redistricter/ https://code.google.com/p/redistricter/
by jskonhovd 13y ago
I still don't understand why we don't use algorithms to fix gerrymandering.
https://code.google.com/p/redistricter/ https://code.google.com/p/redistricter/
- ck2 13y agoIt's because you are thinking logically. Politics sadly has nothing to do with logic, it's a popularity contest.
- dragonwriter 13y agoBecause gerrymandering isn't the problem -- as evidenced by the fact that states that have non-partisan redistricting processes haven't managed to reduce the problem. There is no method of apportioning single-member districts whose representatives are elected in FPTP elections that has good results. Gerrymandering is politicians working to direct the way in which such a system fails in their own favor, but such a system is going to fail one way or another.
- krapp 13y agoBecause as far as the politicians who benefit from gerrymandering are concerned, it's not broken.