Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts

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Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.

John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.

We never had a real democracy to begin with.

What a dumb comment! What were we then?

What we have always been a constitutional republic.

No shit! And what does that mean?

DP. For one, a democracy is ruled by the majority, and we know that is not is what is happening in American politics. If that was true, Rhode Island and Wyoming residents would not have the same amount of sway in the Senate as California and Texas. A republic system is sought of abstract and rules through elected officials but not necessarily governed by the majority of the populace.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't we just have AI do boundaries related to neighborhoods and try to make them as equal as possible? It just seems like a computer could do this better than a politician.

AI? Please god no. But there are algorithms that have already been created to do just that. Heck, those same algorithms are being used in TX and CA to gerrymander. The underlying problem is that partisan and incumbent protection gerrymandering is legal.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't we just have AI do boundaries related to neighborhoods and try to make them as equal as possible? It just seems like a computer could do this better than a politician.

AI? Please god no. But there are algorithms that have already been created to do just that. Heck, those same algorithms are being used in TX and CA to gerrymander. The underlying problem is that partisan and incumbent protection gerrymandering is legal.

+1 Republicans started this by insisting they needed to gerrymander Texas in ways that were clearly denying representation to certain groups. California at least asked its voters to approve the new voter maps. Texas just steamrolled everyone/

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Anonymous wrote:Can't we just have AI do boundaries related to neighborhoods and try to make them as equal as possible? It just seems like a computer could do this better than a politician.

AI? Please god no. But there are algorithms that have already been created to do just that. Heck, those same algorithms are being used in TX and CA to gerrymander. The underlying problem is that partisan and incumbent protection gerrymandering is legal.

+1 The gerrymandering problem got much worse after computers first got involved decades ago. And a court just affirmed that the Texas redraw is an illegal gerrymander based on race.

Regarding Maryland, just heard a good interview with the president of the state Senate reminding everyone that the last time Maryland gerrymandered to make the one Republican district competitive, the courts struck it down and there’s a risk that a court could redraw the map with two Republican seats instead of just the one.

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