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   lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 02:41:46 JST lainy
   If you gerrymander all districts to be 100% one party each, you turn the first-past-the-post system into a proportional representative one
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     John (john@liberdon.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 03:48:59 JST John

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     It is an interesting thought, but for what it's worth gerrymandering IRL isn't just about packing, it's about packing the opposing districts and cracking your own. You want each of your districts to be 60% your party (or 54% if your area is sufficiently inelastic like my state), and when you run out of your voters you make remaining districts 100% opposing party.

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     John (john@liberdon.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 03:49:00 JST John

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     You'd be drawing lines down the middle of beds and through individual's ballots.