Why “Gerrymandering” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
>Authors of the voting rights act understood that the former is so often a veneer for the latter that they are functionally the same thing. You can't say this with a straight fa…
by scoofy · Oct 30, 2026
It doesn't represent the risk to gerrymandering at all. There are no error bars in voting patterns based on 4 year old data. Part of the reason this next cycle is looking so bad…
by parineum · Oct 30, 2026
Aren't they both ripoffs of the 2019 boardgame Mapmaker? (Great Kickstarter, they played games of it on the steps of the supreme Court, and had pledge levels where you could hav…
by j_rosenthal · Oct 30, 2026
not shameless as here is cut and paste from the landing page when all that renders is plain text elect.horse is a daily gerrymandering puzzle: the horse is losing the popular vo…
by metalman · Oct 30, 2026
Indeed, humanity proceeds largely through refinement of existing ideas, not through random leaps. Some of these refinements are much more important than most new ideas. And maki…
by p-e-w · Oct 30, 2026
Surely you agree that "both sides" think the other side is full of evil politicians that want to destroy the country AND their voters are complete morons? And surely you can agr…
by xienze · Oct 30, 2026
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Gerrymandering, defined in the contexts of representative electoral systems, is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency. Read more on Wikipedia