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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://urbanists.social/users/MissGayle/statuses/113420493477082878">Miss Gayle (missgayle@urbanists.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 03:48:52 JST</a><a href="https://urbanists.social/@MissGayle" title="missgayle@urbanists.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/291716-48-20241103162035.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Miss Gayle" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Miss Gayle</a></section><article><p>We need a federal law requiring voting districts to be substantially "regular polygons" (with the obvious geographic exceptions). There are computer programs that can do this fairly easily, adjusting the size of the polygons as population density requires. A voronoi diagram with slight edits would work.</p><p>Combining this with state laws requiring Electoral College members to follow the popular vote should eliminate the ability for republicans to negate the votes of the majority.</p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Gerrymandering" rel="tag">#Gerrymandering</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3930776#notice-7680143">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-11-04T03:48:52+09:00" title="Monday, 04-Nov-2024 03:48:52 JST">about 20 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://urbanists.social/@MissGayle/113420493477082878" rel="external" title="Sent from urbanists.social via ActivityPub">urbanists.social</a></span></span><a href="https://urbanists.social/@MissGayle/113420493477082878">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3404724">Yes, polygons may cut streets in half and so forth. In this day and age that should not be an issue, due to mail in voting, early voting, etc. Eliminating gerrymandering is more important than whether you vote in the same polling place as people down the street you don't even know.Illustrated image of a Voronoi Diagram.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
20 points and their Voronoi cells (larger version below)In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects. It can be classified also as a tessellation. In the simplest case, these objects are just finitely many points in the plane (called seeds, sites, or generators). For each seed there is a corresponding region, called a Voronoi cell, consisting of all points of the plane closer to that seed than to any other. The Voronoi diagram of a set of points is dual to that set's Delaunay triangulation.The Voronoi diagram is named after mathematician Georgy Voronoy, and is also called a Voronoi tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, a Voronoi partition, or a Dirichlet tessellation (after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet). Voronoi cells are also known as Thiessen polygons, after Alfred H. Thiessen.[1][2][3] Voronoi diagrams have practical and theoretical applications in many fields, mainly in science and technology, but also in visual art.[4][5]</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/113/420/479/704/478/319/original/eb252f1948420458.png" rel="external">https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/113/420/479/704/478/319/original/eb252f1948420458.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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We need a federal law requiring voting districts to be substantially "regular polygons" (with the obvious geographic exceptions). There are computer programs that can do this fairly easily, adjusting the size of the polygons as population density requires. A voronoi diagram with slight edits would work.
Combining this with state laws requiring Electoral College members to follow the popular vote should eliminate the ability for republicans to negate the votes of the majority.
#Gerrymandering
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1. Yes, polygons may cut streets in half and so forth. In this day and age that should not be an issue, due to mail in voting, early voting, etc. Eliminating gerrymandering is more important than whether you vote in the same polling place as people down the street you don't even know. Illustrated image of a Voronoi Diagram. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 20 points and their Voronoi cells (larger version below) In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects. It can be classified also as a tessellation. In the simplest case, these objects are just finitely many points in the plane (called seeds, sites, or generators). For each seed there is a corresponding region, called a Voronoi cell, consisting of all points of the plane closer to that seed than to any other. The Voronoi diagram of a set of points is dual to that set's Delaunay triangulation. The Voronoi diagram is named after mathematician Georgy Voronoy, and is also called a Voronoi tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, a Voronoi partition, or a Dirichlet tessellation (after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet). Voronoi cells are also known as Thiessen polygons, after Alfred H. Thiessen.[1][2][3] Voronoi diagrams have practical and theoretical applications in many fields, mainly in science and technology, but also in visual art.[4][5]
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