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How does gerrymandering work? How does drawing new maps in a state to say these over here are repubs and the over here are dems? How does it matter when it just goes to the state vote? (lemmy.world)
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[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Each side gerrymanders so they won't agree to abolish it.

It would be very difficult to truly "abolish" gerrymandering because there's no one objectively fair way to drive lines on a map. Some states have tried to make it more fair by opening proposed maps up to outside nonpartisan bodies for approval (which is why California needed a special ballot measure to even be able to consider their current gerrymandering scheme), but there's never going to be a perfect way to carve up a map and let everyone in it feel equally represented.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Abolish gerrymandering by abolishing those lines on the map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

This is it. The solution is super easy.