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  • @[email protected]
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    3514 days ago

    If you’d like to be horrified, Alpha Phoenix shows how to make election maps that don’t look like they’ve been gerrymandered, and might be hard to spot what is wrong with them!

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      914 days ago

      I was going to post that video. First past the post is broken. Technology has far outpaced the idea when a YouTuber can draw harmless looking maps to not only decide elections but also decide how sensitive the election is to voters changing their minds on specific issues.

  • @[email protected]
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    814 days ago

    My only real complaint is that “have an ai do it” isn’t a great suggestion though; an ai wil have the same bias as whoever developed it.

  • Ech
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    413 days ago

    I always think of this infographic illustrating an easy to understand version of districting/gerrymandering. It’s obviously leaving out the real life complexities and difficulties, but it gets the idea across.

  • @mindbleach
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    114 days ago

    The general solution is proportional representation. E.g., ranked ballots under Single Transferable Voting. Six seats left? First candidate to 1/6th support wins. Count only top votes, eliminate the least popular candidate, repeat. Remove whichever ballots went to that guy. Five seats left? First candidate to 1/5th support wins. Etc.

    Also: Democratic.