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eggplant

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12. There can be ones generated by machine with well-understood and accepted inherent bias.

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 12:53 PM

Mar 2015

No matter what method, one side can argue that it benefits the other side. That doesn't mean that there aren't ways to partition land into fair and reasonable regions, based solely on geography and population.

It really isn't that hard.

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Thanks. sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #2

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There can be ones generated by machine with well-understood and accepted inherent bias. eggplant Mar 2015 #12

If you looked at Texas districts and realize there is a thin line from Houston to Austin Thinkingabout Mar 2015 #13

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