Great find, Paleo! Astute quote from Dr Wang, especially the last sentence:
“People think of gerrymanders as consisting of funny-shaped individual districts. But that’s not true. A clever expert with mapping software can lasso voters wherever they live, and those districts sometimes even look superficially okay. Also, these days gerrymandering is not a single-district offense. Instead, the offense arises from skew in the statewide plan as a whole.”
– Professor Sam Wang, Director of the Electoral Innovation Lab
This is so much better most lists of this kind that solely look at the shape without considering why the shape was made. Kudos for including "clean" looking cracking and not just messy lines.
The worst gerrymandered districts:
https://thefulcrum.us/electoral-reforms/worst-gerrymandered-districts
Great find, Paleo! Astute quote from Dr Wang, especially the last sentence:
“People think of gerrymanders as consisting of funny-shaped individual districts. But that’s not true. A clever expert with mapping software can lasso voters wherever they live, and those districts sometimes even look superficially okay. Also, these days gerrymandering is not a single-district offense. Instead, the offense arises from skew in the statewide plan as a whole.”
– Professor Sam Wang, Director of the Electoral Innovation Lab
This is so much better most lists of this kind that solely look at the shape without considering why the shape was made. Kudos for including "clean" looking cracking and not just messy lines.
Agreed