I do like my dad's idea of just making a mark at the center of a state & making even population wedges from there. Start with the smallest area to get to the population & spread from there.
Not perfect, but better than whatever the hell this is.
Someone developed an algorithm along those lines that tries to make evenly-populated districts that all look mostly compact, I think it worked by trying to minimize the sum of the perimeters of the districts, which would penalize long, thin districts like this
I'm not good at code, so making an algorithm never even occurred to me. Just going radially seemed more straightforward. But I don't see why that wouldn't work either.
why do you need districts? Just vote for representatives on the city, county, state and federal level by counting the votes for each party/candidate against those of the others, everyone living in that place is automaticaly eligible to vote there
I do like my dad's idea of just making a mark at the center of a state & making even population wedges from there. Start with the smallest area to get to the population & spread from there.
Not perfect, but better than whatever the hell this is.
Someone developed an algorithm along those lines that tries to make evenly-populated districts that all look mostly compact, I think it worked by trying to minimize the sum of the perimeters of the districts, which would penalize long, thin districts like this
Mathematically, fair districting is pretty simple once you define what "fair" is, but politicians don't care about that.
I'm not good at code, so making an algorithm never even occurred to me. Just going radially seemed more straightforward. But I don't see why that wouldn't work either.
why do you need districts? Just vote for representatives on the city, county, state and federal level by counting the votes for each party/candidate against those of the others, everyone living in that place is automaticaly eligible to vote there