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It's also illegal in the united states.
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I’d love to see what the vote would look like if we broke the gerrymandering systems today. Democrats are just now talking about doing their own fuckery to counter republicans, but what if we just “didnt” have them, which side wins?
The limit (with infinite districts made of infinite people) is theoretically 1/4 support, in a 2 party system, with a choice made from separately decided districts. If you add another level of districts, it could be 1/8, another would be 1/16, and so on.
In practice you can't make a district with actually 100% support of the opposing party, and you need to leave a little room for error in the districts you plan to win. Also there aren't an infinite number of districts lol
There is a board game! There's also a virtual version of Mapmaker on Board Game Arena
It is quite fun despite the depressing context.
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Non-surprisingly it exists in some form in anglo countries.
UK and Canada
In the UK we have the electoral boundary commission specifically to avoid this sort of thing. Do you have an example of it being a problem in the UK?
This is just from what I looked up (from 4 years ago):
With both parties getting 38% to Tories get 12 more seats than Labour.
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?scotcontrol=Y&CON=38&LAB=38&LIB=12&Reform=2&Green=3&UKIP=&TVCON=&TVLAB=&TVLIB=&TVReform=&TVGreen=&TVUKIP=&SCOTCON=23.6&SCOTLAB=19.2&SCOTLIB=6&SCOTReform=0.3&SCOTGreen=1.5&SCOTUKIP=&SCOTNAT=47.5&display=AllChanged®orseat=%28none%29&boundary=2019base
Seen other comments they can also mess with other factors, avg inhabitants, etc...
Anyway, really not familiar with this but at first glance you at least have that system and you all can decide if 12 seats is a problem to you or not. Not my problem
”Perfect representation” only works if everyone votes. Blue can win with 3 votes against 20 votes.