Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Potentially Monumental Political Gerrymandering Case

[moonshaz]

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case out of Wisconsin that could lead to a landmark decision determining whether or not Republicans or Democrats have drawn their state’s electoral districts in a way that gives their candidates an unconstitutional advantage.

The case, Gill v. Whitford, comes to the court after a panel of three federal judges

Comments

[pairatime]

I've love for them to rule that electoral districts should be made with knowledge of the numbers and locations of voters but nothing else about them. That would be one of the more fair ways of creating them.

[moonshaz]

Agreed!

[blueeowyn]

That should be doable with modern math and geospatial information. Each district has the same N of voters with the smallest outline with possibly modifiers to follow natural delineations (e.g. rivers, county boundaries, major highways). By minimizing the circumference of each district, you will avoid things like the 'bone' district I heard about a few years ago where it was something absurd like 1/8 of a mile wide for most of it, 10 miles long with a circle at each end.

[pairatime]

There should be no problem with doing it, I just hope the courts order it or it won't happen.

[lightframes]

I'M STRESSED

In 2012, Republicans got just 48.6 percent of the vote statewide, but won 60 of the state’s 99 Assembly districts.

This would be embarrassing to me but I'm not a Republican