Proportional Gerrymandering

Proportional Gerrymandering is a system in which district lines are redrawn with the voters interests in mind resulting in a much fairer way to . For example, if the majority party at this time in a district was the Democratic party and the minority party would be, by the same token, the Republican Party, the lines in this district would be redrawn to represent this disparity while still keeping fairness of elections in mind. AKA:

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By drawing the lines of each district with attention to what party affiliation people place themselves in and preventing self serving bias from entering this process the best result can be attained. On the blog some have argued that the fairest way to split up the districts is by using an algorithm however this could still result in districts that are unfairly split up, potentially giving a party a false majority. To fix this system we have to: First, remove bias and political interest when drawing these lines, and second, drawing these lines in a fair and meaningful way giving neither party a false or unfair majority as seen below:

This map shows that ohios voters are almost split down the middle, with democrats having a slight advantage of 1%, however because of how the lines are drawn, republicans, in this case, have a distinct advantage. Indeed Proportional gerrymandering could solve this problem and many such problems across the nation.