At 7:02 AM -0800 11/6/06, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A simple solution to gerrymandering is to have the voters pick which >districting method they want. Every recognized political party in a state >could offer their own version (subject to certain restrictions, like >simple closed curves and equal populations in each district), and voters >could pick which one they prefer in a general election. That districting >method would then be used for the *following* election.
Sounds more like a gerrymandering guarantee, at least if there's a majority part at the time of the districting election. How about this: same rule, but a voters are prohibited from voting for the rule advanced by their own party (ignoring the problem of opportunistic party-switching). A variation on the old candy-bar-sharing algorithm. (I don't think it actually works, as specified, but you get the general idea.) -- /Jonathan Lundell. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
