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maxerickson on Jan 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Track Trump: The First 100 Days

A big problem with that petition is that "fair" is a big, fat loaded word that is essentially meaningless.

One definition of fair: minimize geographic size of each district.

Another: maximize demographic uniformity of each district.

Another: maximize demographic diversity of each district.

Floegipoky on Jan 24, 2017 [–]

Completely true, which is why I'm hoping that lawyers from organizations like the ACLU and NAACP will be included in the team. Hopefully they would be able to come up with a reasonable working definition of 'fair and representative' that can be optimized using publicly available information.

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