Geoffrey MillerVerified account

We long known this is possible, and preferable from a neutral point of view. Problem is, politicians in a position to choose aren't in neutral mood. Push would have to come from citizens, who today are also far from a neutral mood.

Yes yes yes. I don’t often agree with you but I TOTALLY agree. I don’t understand why legislatures are allowed to draw district lines in the first place. It makes no sense. They are incentivized to gerrymander so of course shady lines are drawn.

@FiveThirtyEight has a great series on #Gerrymandering and why it’s not so easy to just say “automate” it.

That's fine I guess, but imagine all the ways elected officials could enhance the district boundary drawing process if they are permitted to decide.

And how would you account for economic, ethnic, and religious clustering?

Famous last words

Single member districts are the root cause of gerrymandering. A good software ‘solution’ just changes the problem. In one close election republicans could win all the seats and the democrats could win all the seats in the next close election. Lather, rinse, repeat.

better, just reduce district size back to 30k. This solves a ton of problems at once. here's a thread on it and a site with more, older depth and arguments https://twitter.com/AnalyticD/status/970077549798838272 … http://www.thirty-thousand.org