LINK How next-gen computer generated maps detect partisan gerrymandering | Science News
"Researchers are ready to expose hidden biases when redistricting begins in 2021."
"Tests that have emerged over the last few years . . . Rely on computers to generate thousands, or even millions, of possible maps. The programs draw myriad boundary lines around a given district and estimate which party would win that district under each scenario. "
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Awesome maybe things can correct themselves
bobwjr
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Sep 8, 2020
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I'll cling to that hope in the face of intense opposition.
The repugs have even admitted that they've drawn their maps to minimize the impact of minority votes.
HumanistJohn
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Sep 8, 2020
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They are rapacious at marginalization of minorities.
Whenever they pay lip service to minorities, I cringe at the hollow words.
I just started reading this book. Stuart Stevens once made commercials for the republicans.
From the prologue:
"There is nothing strange or unexpected about donald trump. He is the logical conclusion of what the republican party became over the last fifty or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race, self-deception, and anger that became the essence of the republican party. trump isn't an aberration of the republican party; he is the republican party in a purified form."
@HumanistJohn
The quote neither lies nor flatters the GOP.
I wonder how much stigma the GOP will suffer due to its association with Trump.
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