Saturday, October 6, 2012

Gerrymandering

When it comes to gerrymandering (see here) I came up with what I think is the best solution. If people can restructure voting districts this can only lead to corrupt practices. The most fair way to create voting districts is to do it randomly. The way you would do this is to break up the whole country into a grid. The grid should be a size that, in sparsely populated areas, about 10,000 voters are included. where population is more dense, break up that particular square in the grid so that roughly 10,000 voters are included in each sub-grid created due to increased population. What's wrong with that idea? When it comes to the citizens being broken up into voting blocks, all should be thought of as equal - no consideration of political affiliation, racial makeup, economic condition, religion, etc. Just voters! When you start screwing with the districts to end up with a preconceived notion that gives anyone any particular advantage other than just where they happen to be living at any given time is just wrong. Create a fair system to give everyone an equal vote and let everybody vote! Gerrymandering is an assault on the democratic process.

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