The talk, presented by @PrincetonCITP will be live-streamed here: http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu
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"Majority rule does not come easily in our electoral system."pic.twitter.com/aaveaMx0CE
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"The Civil War was a time of racial divisions, technological disruption ... increasing inequality, and deep, deep partisanship."
@SamWangPhD notes that we're currently living in a time with all of those factors once again.1 reply 4 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
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@SamWangPhD says, "Gerrymandering is old, but it's been made new again" due to partisanship.pic.twitter.com/nUulcwUmX5
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Attempted fixes to gerrymandering have included: federal courts, state courts and New Federalism. The fundamental problem? The system has to want to be fixed.pic.twitter.com/kQJysUkcYo
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"People will go to great lengths to elect voters that are agreeable" to them as candidates.
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"Using our statistical measures, there used to be ~1 bad gerrymander per decade ... by the 2010s, 7 were picked up."
@SamWangPhD and his team have developed the Princeton Gerrymandering Project to track this info.pic.twitter.com/f6UxLu0NJr
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Federal election law, as
@SamWangPhD notes, can be compared to the Death Star from@starwars -- "an impregnable fortress."pic.twitter.com/dttNeqzWnt1 reply 3 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
"This is the beginning of a long road in which we're going to find out if this approach is going to work," says
@SamWangPhD of his team's recent@CommonCause win.pic.twitter.com/mQlNx58YvT
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The next step:
@SamWangPhD and his team are gathering data about redistricting in 4 states in hopes to expand to all 50 states (along with D.C. and Puerto Rico) by 2021 to eventually achieve open, public access.1 reply 2 retweets 4 likesShow this thread
Existing public and private databases contain many errors due to things like little quality control and lost data. Because of this, @SamWangPhD says, "at some point, it needs to be powered by citizens."pic.twitter.com/eX5UY7xZLJ
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@SamWangPhD wraps up by looking to the future: "The road ahead for us is exciting ... we're hoping to provide help for state-level activists ... our hope is to help provide open data and software" for everybody in the United States.pic.twitter.com/XNJQKcUGcs
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