07-03-2003, 03:07 PM
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Junkie
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Originally posted by Sparhawk
Wasn't there a state that was looking into doing redistricting entirely by a computer model to make districts fair, according to population size, area and so forth?
Let's have a computer* do it for us, since we can't really trust democrats and republicans to do it...
*that sounds kind of matrix/terminator-style spooky, heh...
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Colorado may have been that state. From the same article:
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"Redistricting is almost always a corrupt business," notes Robert Richie, executive director of the Takoma Park-based Center for Voting and Democracy. "But what just happened in Colorado is really disgusting, because what they had before was one of the best districts in the country in terms of being responsive to the voters."
In an era in which most congressional districts are drawn to guarantee safe seats for one party or the other, Colorado bucked the trend after the 2000 Census. The state's new 7th Congressional District was designed to be a political tossup, with one-third of the voters Republican, one-third Democratic and one-third unaffiliated.
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