Americans. Who the fuck decides your electoral boundaries? Here in Oz we have an independent body.
Gerrymander
Liam Morgan
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Jacob Green
There's no such thing as an "independent" body
Sebastian Garcia
relatively independent. How's that, better?
Logan Adams
Every single time a group has claimed to be non-partisan in redistricting in the United States, they always end up having ties to one party or the other.
It would be nice to get rid of all the funky looking districts like those above, but all you would end up with it less obvious but still biased boundaries. Especially now with the amount of data they have access to and the amount of computing power they can use.
Cooper Long
close your eyes and tap your heels three times faggot
you'll be right back in Kansas
Jason Bennett
waiting with interest
Nolan Torres
worthless
Noah Perez
Those are only objective in that they are a single standardized algorithm.
You could still take a selection of 10 different algorithms, and compute exactly which one would be the best for your side overall.
Yes, it would be objectively less biased than the current method, but it would still end up biased slightly in favour of whichever side is making the rules, and thus the other side would never agree to it.
Hunter Anderson
So does bipartisanship ever occur in the US?
Ayden Lee
Only when it comes to wars and trade deals.
really makes you think
Ryder Evans
>Americans. Who the fuck decides your electoral boundaries?
Corrupt Republican Governors.
Ryan Lopez
Honest? that's some shitty democracy then.
Josiah Green
democrat*
Jaxson Cooper
America has as much Democracy as North Korea.
We are North Korea, only with endless cheeseburgers.
Jeremiah Kelly
State legislatures are supposed to redistrict after each census (every ten years), but are allowed to redistrict as much as they want. This means that districts like North Carolina 12 and Maryland 3 can be created before elections to pack people of one party into a single district, throwing other districts to the party of the state legislature. There is a process to challenge districting in court, but I'm not sure how that happens. NC 12 is a district being challenged right now, though.
Jack Young
Not since the 2010 census.
Jack Peterson
The US isn't even a real country. They just lie to us in school and say it is.
Xavier Sanchez
Here in Wisconsin, the Republicans passed legislation that makes it legal for individual, non-contiguous parcels to be part of nearby districts
Lucas Martinez
The US is a democracy until it is a republic until it is a group of unelected careerists who tell elected officials exactly how its gonna go down. Look at the Trump election. Is this a free market or a monopoly across several industries?
Luis Cook
>Yes, it would be objectively less biased than the current method, but it would still end up biased slightly in favour of whichever side is making the rules, and thus the other side would never agree to it.
If one side earnestly proposed one method in particular I doubt the other would voice much opposition because a) the advantage, if it exists, is much smaller than the current method and b) it's completely unpredictable.
You have to think, the only reason both parties oppose this now is because they both know they can do as they wish once they get in power.
Just another agenda item for the CTPWNS Party after their sleeper politicians rise through the ranks of the duopoly.
Isaac Rivera
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Julian Adams
>it's completely unpredictable.
In the long term it is, due to demographic changes and political shifts, assuming the chosen algorithm is set in stone.
But short term they know EXACTLY the impact of any potential district boundaries.
Jace Ward
It was a republic first you fuckwit mexican.
Christian Williams
>muh democracy
democracy is a fraud and inevitably leads to socialism and identity politics.