re: #54 goddamnedfrank

There really should be some common sense rules for drawing Congressional districts:

-They can have only so many sides / borders, if you can’t draw all your legislative districts with less than 8 to 12 sides each then you’re probably trying to game the system.

-There should probably be some set ratio of district circumference to area. Any districts with super long and thin corridors designed to unite two distant and distinct populations would be disallowed as having too much border vs. the area served.

-Each “side” must follow either a public road or natural feature such as a ridge line, river, or state border. A district’s borders can’t run along both sides of the same railroad right of way or utility corridor.

-At redistricting time each district must have roughly an equal number of adults who qualify to be registered to vote, variation +/- 2% max.

Look at some of the districts in Texas. There’s a reason they keep getting hauled into court over them.