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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

AI?  Please god no.  [b]But there are algorithms that have already been created to do just that.[/b]  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.[/quote]
+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.[/quote]

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