re: #79 jamesfirecat

Actually DF now that I think about it allow me to explain why district based Eectoral vote allocation is unfair even without direct gerrymandering Democrats tend to win urban areas, republicans tend to win rural areas, as America is not a warhammer 40k forgeworld it is made up of more rural areas than urban ones. Those urban ones however have a great many more democrats in them the rural areas have total people, because you can pack a lot of people shoulder to shoulder in an urban environment. This difference is telling when you do Electoral vites based on state or look at the entire popular vote, but not so much if you were to do it by district.

There is no “fair ” way to give out electoral votes based on district, even without deliberate gerrymandering, the end result would still favor republicans more than democrats.

Thank you for the revision. Given the current electoral advantage the Dems have, I’d not mind cutting it down in that fashion, as long the districts were drawn fairly. Congressional districts within do have to be roughly even in terms of their population.