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Mike Lew's avatar

Gerrymandering was a lot more trouble before computers. The genie is out of the bottle!

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JF's avatar

True; Big Data. IтАЩm wondering if gerrymandering was pursued with such blatant scheming vigor, even without the benefit of computers. I suppose itтАЩs hard to separate out.

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Mike Lew's avatar

A modern computer is exponentially faster than hand. To really Gerrymander well, you have to try thousands of slight variations to the shape of a district. By hand, that's a pain so you settle for good enough. Software can draw a new district very rapidly.

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