There is no good way to draw up Congressional Districts. Suppose your
state is entitled to 7 Congress critturs. And it's 40% Republican. So
you should create a map with 3 majority R and 4 majority D. But that
means if you're a D and live in an R district your vote means nothing
and vice versa. The problem is having one representative=one district.
The usual measure of how much gerrymandering is bad, is how the mix of
the representatives differs from the mix in the Presidential votes;
which would go away if the representatives were elected at large, like
Senators. So to make it good we should create districts that elect at
least three or four representatives using rank-choice (when a state
elects more that 3 say).
Brent
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