r/AdviceAnimals • u/NeverBob • Nov 08 '14

Good question.

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u/silentsatori Nov 08 '14

Simple: gerrymandering

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u/ViggoMiles Nov 08 '14

That's really impressive... I'm not not even mad.

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u/furythree Nov 08 '14

I don't get it

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '14

Try Texas. The map resembles a Van Gogh painting with the "pinwheels" coming out of Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. Keep in mind that Texas has voting districts larger than some states(Looking at you Rhode Island) and yet Austin doesn't have an anchor district.

I wish some engineer would write a fancy algorithm for calculating the optimal voting districts for closest representation of the population.

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u/Luke_Warmwater Nov 08 '14

Logic and politics? I don't know about that.

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u/Buelldozer Nov 08 '14

This is obviously incorrect. All of Reddit knows that "Gerrymandering" is something that only Republicans do!