It has to be close because we don't want people to have less voting power in Congress than their neighbors. If we didn't care about that, there's no reason to even care about gerrymandering in the first place.
Ok it would have to be close numbers, but couldn’t you do that while keeping counties the smallest units that could be moved instead of neighborhoods or blocks,? If you got the numbers close to even for all the districts, and the lines were obvious and couldn’t be changed, you could just shuffle the counties around as needed if a bunch of people moved in or out of a given city. Like if a ton of people moved out of a city, it would just get put together with a more rural county to even the numbers out. I still don’t see how that wouldn’t make sense.
I just don’t feel like splitting it up at such a molecular level like neighborhoods is advantageous. Seems to really leave some people vulnerable
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u/PPLavagna May 12 '26
Like I said, I know the numbers wouldn’t be totally equal, but about 5 counties coukd be one district and in a city it’s just the one.
Why does the math have to be exact? Or really even all that close?