Re: Redistricting and Gerrymandering Community Center by Reverend Jim With new voting rights legislation proposed (supposedly including an end to gerrymandering) how about this as a simple guideline. 1. The smallest rectangle that contains a district cannot be more than 1.5 times in one dimension than the other. 1. The area within the rectangle must be at least 95% district. Re: Leaders Community Center Geeks' Lounge by VernonDozier …, not just excellent ones. Combine a two party system with gerrymandering and you get bizarre voting precincts where you can virtually… Re: Associative Array of States and Countries Programming Web Development by diafol Pointless creating one for the UK. The politicians change the boundaries and the names of counties - seemingly at every opportunity (gerrymandering). Re: Manners, chivalry and sexism Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim … Republicans have managed to keep their majority in Congress through Gerrymandering. 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My concern with American style politics, like voter suppression and gerrymandering to rig elections is that what happens down south seems… Re: Voting online Community Center Geeks' Lounge by mike_2000_17 … to trying to cheat their way to being elected, like gerrymandering, selective registering of voters, voter ID laws, bringing down the… Re: How to hack an election, Virginia style Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim When the party in power already benefits by gerrymandering and passing voter ID laws designed to minimize opposition votes, why should we be surprised when they also benefit from electroniic voting systems that are rigged in their favour? Re: UK Elections 2015 Community Center Geeks' Lounge by diafol Five years of unfettered pillaging of public resources. Some more gerrymandering. Draconian changes to the law. It all points a bright … Re: UK Elections 2015 Community Center Geeks' Lounge by diafol … made. Even at the time it was estimated that this gerrymandering, or whatever term apologists would want to give it, would… Re: November 2016 Community Center by Reverend Jim … the last few decades, has been done by the GOP - gerrymandering, targeted voter ID laws, etc). Plus, he keeps on ramping… Re: How Should Voting Machines Work? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim I know that both major parties are guilty of gerrymandering, although one party does it far more than the other. … Re: How Should Voting Machines Work? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by rproffitt @gentlemedia, Blockchain would not solve issues (I smell shenanigans) like http://www.kut.org/post/hey-texans-if-youre-voting-straight-ticket-machine-check-your-ballot , gerrymandering, "losing" a ballot box (or computer) or the latest, changing the voting rules to require a mailing address. That last one is in the news. Redistricting and Gerrymandering Community Center by Reverend Jim I've been following the latest efforts (in the US) of the GOP to unfairly redraw electoral boundaries and was considering how simple a law could be worded to ensure a more fair allocation of electoral districts. What I came up with is: 1. All boundary lines must consist of straight line segments 1. No district may contain an inside angle of … Re: Redistricting and Gerrymandering Community Center by rproffitt We're not a democracy. The US is an Oligarchy. https://www.google.com/search?as_st=y&tbm=isch&as_q=oligarchy We moved from democracy to oligarchy over the past decade and I don't see it going back soon. More at https://www.thebalance.com/oligarchy-countries-list-who-s-involved-and-history-3305590 Re: Redistricting and Gerrymandering Community Center by Reverend Jim Technically you were never a democracy. You were a republic. There are subtle but [important differences](https://blog.prepscholar.com/republic-vs-democracy-difference). Differences notwithstanding, you are still pretty much f\*\*ked. Not that we're that far behind you on the curve. Re: Redistricting and Gerrymandering Community Center by Reverend Jim A slightly less restrictive but (I hope) still fair policy might be: 1. All boundary lines must consist of straight line segments 1. No district may have a major axis greater than 1.5 times its minor axis 1. The major and minor axes must lie entirely within the district Any topologists out there who can confirm the fairness of this? Re: Redistricting and Gerrymandering Community Center by Agilemind You still have the problem of densely populated liberal cities surrounded by sparsely populated conservative ones. If the main goal is still to have equal numbers of people in each district do you make a donut around the city? Do you slice it up like a pie? Either of those will violate some of your rules. Another simple solution is to say that … Re: Redistricting and Gerrymandering Community Center by Reverend Jim It seems that a further restriction would be that each district must have a population between two bounds. Densely populated urban areas would have smaller districts. Rural districts would have larger districts. At least my plan would eliminate the [jigsaw districts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2EnuHsRJd4). No plan is perfect but surely we can… Re: Redistricting and Gerrymandering Community Center by Agilemind Regardless of the rules, politicians will find a way to exploit them for their own end. We really need to take redistricting out of the hands of politicians and into an independent agency who's leader has to be approved by all major parties. Re: Redistricting and Gerrymandering Community Center by Reverend Jim An independant agency would be composed of individuals, and these individuals all have political leanings. The judiciary is supposed to be apolitical but we've seen the GOP delay appointments under the Obama administration so they could pack the courts with right-wing judges. Re: Redistricting and Gerrymandering Community Center by Agilemind Gov'ts have independent advisory boards / agencies on a whole range of issues: science, environment, etc.. and they work just fine. You just need to set a few simple rules: appointments to the leadership of the advisory board/agency are made by committees composed of equal number of members from each major party - if this becomes unworkable due …