3/ e.g Voting Rights Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965 … Bartlett v. Strickland (2009), and other court cases (it's been a while since I dug into this, so I don't have it all in memory).
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14/ But in 2020, will mail-in ballots (or even without, if you consider our ability to marshal and ship data around), there's no logistic reason that districts need to have minimized perimeters ... or even be contiguous! Here's an illustrative map of my demographicpic.twitter.com/8jLTLQhkTN
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15/ Why NOT make this a congressional district? Who CARES if they're contiguous? Why not seek to minimize some information distance when creating districts, not geographical distance?
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16/ I mean, I'm still mostly an ancap. I'd prefer no government at all, and competing polycentric legal system. ...but if we're going to have government, why seek to make the representative units geographically compact? Gerrymandering is Good; Q.E.D.
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Several US states' counties are the size they are for the same reason. Most of Iowa's counties are four townships, which means that even with roads that only go EW and NS, you're never more than 24 miles away, and that's if the County Seat is in a corner, which is never is.
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