Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game That Puts the Fun in Undermining Democracy
3rd June 2021
Ars Technica is yet another Woke tech ‘news’ site.
I have never understood that assertion that ‘gerrymandering’ (i.e. drawing districts so that people who presumably vote one way will all be in the same district) is somehow ‘undermining democracy’.
Which is a better implementation of ‘democracy’, a district where the elected representtaive gets 51% of the vote or one where the elected representitive gets 65% of the vote? Who is more ‘disfranchised’, the 49% who aren’t represented by the guy they voted for (and are ‘represented’ by the guy they voted against) in the former case or the 25% in the latter case?
I should think that ‘democracy’, if it means anything other than ‘we’ll pretend to listen to the voters’, would best be served by maximizing the vote that one side will get in any given election. After all, it’s not as if anybody cares about the candidate more than they care about the Side that the candidate represents….
UPDATE: Is Gerrymandering About to Become More Difficult?
I suspect not, as long as it is in the hands of politicians or their tools.