Comments on: do-it-yourself gerrymandering http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/ Musings on voting systems and social choice Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:42:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Do independent or bi-partisan commissions solve gerrymandering? « All About Voting http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-289 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:07:15 +0000 http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-289 [...] January 2, 2008 · No Comments An approach to solving gerrymandering of districts is to use an independent commission to draw the districts. This approach can work but often instead of creating an independent commission a bipartisan commission is created. The bipartisan commission still gerrymanders but it does so in a way that is agreeable to the two main parties. (If you need a reminder of how a bipartisan gerrymander works, play mission 3 of the redistricting game) [...]

]]> By: Why Tuesday on the Redistricting Game « All About Voting http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-64 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:44:57 +0000 http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-64 [...] The folks at Why Tuesday have made a 5 minute video segment where they visit Chris Swain, director of the University of Southern California’s Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab to discuss The Redistricting Game. [...]

]]> By: some proposed reforms to the problems of gerrymandering « All About Voting http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-63 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:26:29 +0000 http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-63 [...] to All About Voting ← do-it-yourself gerrymandering A cynical but very funny quote. [...]

]]> By: AllAboutVoting http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-28 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:13:00 +0000 http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-28 Michael,

Although I am somewhat confident that you are joking I think that your comment does bring up part of the reality of gerrymandering. There is an attitude amoungst both major political parties that they have to play dirty because the other side plays dirty.

For a reform to be enacted it ideally has to not offer an immediate partisan advantage.

For example, the recent CA proposition regarding gerrymandering might have been a reasonable proposal, but one issue that I recall that it had was that it called for immediate redistricting (rather than waiting for the once-per-decade redistricting that is the current CA practice) which was perceived as giving the Republicans an advantage.

[I reserve the right to be wrong about the recent CA gerrymandering prop; I have not done my research here but am instead relying on memory]

]]> By: Michael T. Halligan http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-27 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:49:27 +0000 http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-27 N,

Rather than freeting about the negative implications of gerrymandering, why don’t we sit down and figure out how we can use it to our advantage?

]]> By: N http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-26 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:43:19 +0000 http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-26 Michael, I think you missed the point.

]]> By: michael t. halligan http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-19 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:56:13 +0000 http://allaboutvoting.com/2007/07/19/do-it-yourself-gerrymandering/#comment-19 so what if i wanted to gerrymander for a specific niche, like get enough people into a voting area to get them to pressure government to vote yes on infrastructure subsidies.. could you hook me up?

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