Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Proportional Gerrymandering

The solution to Gerrymandering in our system that I think would work the best is using the proportional Gerrymandering.  Like it said in the CGPGrey  video, he explained the to fix the problem, we need to embrace it.  Americans, as people, are only interested in benefiting themselves and their personal interests.  Using this to an advantage and paying the consultant used to outline the districts so that they use equal proportions to outline the districts, then there will be accurate, equal representation from the districts and the votes will be an accurate representation of the actual people in the district.

In the map shown above, you can clearly see Gerrymandering in effect in 2004 in Northern Florida.  District 3 is obviously an abnormal shape and that is because the representatives wanted the voters from in those areas North while still having the large chunk between 6 and 7.  With proportional Gerrymandering, there would be able to be equal sized districts so that all parts of the state have an equal chance of being represented.  Of course, by playing the Redistricting game, I learned that not everyone can be pleased with Gerrymandering so by trying to make the representation as equal as possible, they can try to make everyone as happy as they can.


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