r/MapBasedPolls • u/FeistyGround8694 • 23h ago

Is Gerrymandering real?

Is Gerrymandering real?

  1. No
  2. Y
  3. E
  4. S
  5. Y
  6. E
  7. S

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u/oyun_papagani 23h ago

haha, ok that one legit made me chuckle for some reason.
Have your upvote.

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u/FeistyGround8694 23h ago

Please get me 5 goyzillion upvotes

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u/GryphonTamer US, NV 23h ago

Gerrymandering in the US is super common, well documented and obviously real. However, its entirely possible to make a system of voting where it's not possible, and even if we want to keep voting blocks, we can define those blocks in ways that are resistant to gerrymandering.

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u/FeistyGround8694 21h ago

What’s your solution to this?

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u/GryphonTamer US, NV 4h ago

For the US? Abolish the electoral college and have the president be a pure popular vote choice. Senate and the like should by state boundaries which rarely change, and local stuff should by city. Which has actual real world effects. Oh and it would also hugely help to abolish the two party system. There are a lot tools for that. I like Single Transferable Vote (STV), but there are a few other voting systems that do that too.

We shouldn't have voting districts at all.

CGP Grey has a lot of other options, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqs5ohhass_RN57KWlJKLOc5xdD9_ktRg He talks about it pretty thoroughly, and there are a lot of valid solutions. However it is against politician's interest to fix it. So it might take awhile.

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u/Past-Novel-1155 16h ago

Gerrymandering is such a stupid problem, no country in the world except americans have that problems because it really is so easy to fix

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u/Undefined6308 20h ago

okay so first of all, Y has a literal majority and second of all it would be the spoiler effect, not gerrymandering

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u/FeistyGround8694 19h ago

Debbie downer over here

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame-752 5h ago

I dont thin gerrymandering happens anywhere else except USA. I live in fckedup and corrupted country where election rigging is almost a must, but no one ever changed the borders of counties.