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OK another pet pieve I have right now is all the money and efforts going into what we commonly call "redistricting".
Whether it is your local school district, your state or federal representatives or even your City Council person, they are all involved in redistricting.
And none of them have the skill sets required to do this right.
And they are all conflicted.
And they waste valuable time and resources. So let's fix it.
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I hereby call upon all government or civic agencies with the need to "redistrict" to hire your local college or university "math program" to do the analysis for you. Think of the beauty of this.
First we will be using math and Google Earth to do this not some pencils and guesstimates of who/what/where.
Second, half the college kids are not local so they are not predisposed to "carve up precincts" or manufacture "finger districts" like the sillies today always seem to do.
Third, with the proper formulation of the process, we can "redistrict" whenever we need to not becuase we "want to" (to protect someone or get rid of someone).
Fourth, think of the cost savings in terms of both expense savings and time. The current redistricting process is very laborious with many meeting and much expense. This is all saved with a better product.
Here are just a few of the recent districts we somehow agreed on.
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OK so now what we need to do is create an academic program to do this. Should be some simple demographic analysis and some "grid management" and viola I would think we could create a better system than what we presently do. ... More on that shortly.
