Fair redistricting: Illinois

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Curious Question Muon2, is it possible to have only a single County split, while also having a District entirely within Milwaukee County?

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Please turn on city/town lines when making a zoom map of the Twin Cities. As someone who grew up there, I can tell you that they matter locally. They also matter if I try to score the submissions.


MN has 3 UCCs to track. The Minneapolis UCC (Hennepin, Ramsey, Dakota, Anoka, Scott, Wright, Carver, Sherbune) has about 4.6 CDs of population. That means the ideal plan from a UCC perspective only covers those counties with 5 CDs while putting 4 completely within that part of the metro. The other two UCCs are much smaller: St Cloud (Stearns, Benton) and Mankato (Blue Earth, Nicollet), and ideal those pairs should not be split.

I think it is very justified to have these 2 Counties split if you want to use the river as a boundary line between 2 Congressional Districts.

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Personally I think the current Minnesota map is near perfect.

No

Let me list all the chops (really stupidly high):

02 District Chops (1 point each):

07, 08: Beltrami County
06, 07: Stearns County
01, 07: Cottonwood County
01, 02: Rice County
03, 06: Carver County
03, 05: Hennepin County

03 District Chops (3 points each):

02, 04, 06: Washington County
03, 05, 06: Anoka County

This state, where it is easily possible to score 7 chop points, ended up with 12 chop points.

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Nebraska is among the easiest states to draw in an objectively correct way, and the people who drew it somehow messed that up big time.

plan 1:



Green: R+09.74, +666 Deviation
Red  : R+03.66, +059 Deviation
Blue : R+28.56, -724 Deviation

plan 2:

Simply switch Polk and Nuckolls County between the Green and Blue Districts, while leaving the Red District unchanged; this lowers deviation, but makes the shape look worse:

Green: R+09.69, -240 Deviation
Blue : R+28.59, +182 Deviation

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Nebraska is among the easiest states to draw in an objectively correct way, and the people who drew it somehow messed that up big time.

plan 1:



Green: R+09.74, +666 Deviation
Red  : R+03.66, +059 Deviation
Blue : R+28.56, -724 Deviation

plan 2:

Simply switch Polk and Nuckolls County between the Green and Blue Districts, while leaving the Red District unchanged; this lowers deviation, but makes the shape look worse:

Green: R+09.69, -240 Deviation
Blue : R+28.59, +182 Deviation

no trolling pls

you are the troll.

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Hmm, we have 2 plans that respect the integrity of County boundaries, and 2 plans that ignore the integrity of County boundaries.

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Hmm, we have 2 plans that respect the integrity of County boundaries, and 2 plans that ignore the integrity of County boundaries.

the world ain't gonna end if a county's in two different congressional districts

There is no reason not to have a whole County plan if it can be done without high deviation, or really ugly shapes.

Such is in fact possible to do in Nebraska, so it should be required.