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The Hurdles to Ending Gerrymandering
Step one, then, of ending gerrymandering, is to remove the arbitrary power of legislators to draw lines however they please. Therefore, we need some objective principle or system that draws the lines, rather than people. We can bemoan gerrymandering all we want, but to stop it, we need an alternative.
What is such a system that we can agree on?
Data in Policy Debate: What _Isn’t_ Gerrymandering?
A very interesting–and probably quite manipulative–infographic on gerrymandering got us thinking about our biases when looking at data, but then got us asking an increasingly-perplexing question: what the heck _isn’t_ gerrymandering, anyway? How do we create a “fair” districting?