Well that's one less thing about voting weaponized.
Now if only gerrymandering could be undone, it's the real nightmare.
Now if only gerrymandering could be undone, it's the real nightmare.
I recall reading about a mathematician who devised a cut-the-cake algorithm that would work for gerrymandering. Naturally, nobody adopted it, because nobody in power wants fair gerrymandering.
Very cool. Though it does freeze in the two-party nature.
Or how about 5 random maps that evenly divide the state? Voters vote on the maps and most voted map wins.
What if we took the opposite approach, and instead of making it so every district had approximately the same population, made it so each representative's vote was weighted by the population of their district? Could then use county boundaries (assuming the number of counties is >= the number of representatives)
Could even weight by # of votes obtained rather than district population, to incentivize being the preferred representative for as many people in your district as possible. I like having a few pro-consensus forces in our politics in a time of polarization.