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How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising

by Lawrence Krubner demodexio.substack.com published 2022-05-10

Gerrymandering distorts the will of the people, but the basic math of geographic representation makes it difficult to get rid of, unless we get rid of representation for geographic districts.

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