Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Proportional Gerrymandering

I agree with Kayla in the fact that proportional gerrymandering best resolves the problem. Like Mr. Grey said in the video, it is really weird and out of the ordinary to solve the problem by using the problem. However, it is the only one that made the most sense on my terms. This is because if each district is going to be proportional to another, this will sort of make the job of the representative a little easier. This is because each representative will have roughly the same amount of constituents which would have them all on an even playing field. This could strike a problem because nobody would have a majority, but it could be more beneficial in the end. I don't believe that the shortest-split line method is beneficial because if you are randomly drawing lines to divide up a state, there are many factors that aren't being taken into consideration. There could be mixed demographics which would make policy changes harder on the representative. There could also not be a majority within the district or one party that is more present than another which would allow for decisions to be tougher to make. In the end I think that the best way to solve gerrymandering problems is by using proportional gerrymandering.

1 comment:

  1. "There could be mixed demographics which would make policy changes harder on the representative. There could also not be a majority within the district or one party that is more present than another which would allow for decisions to be tougher to make."
    I love this! Great critique!

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