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STV America Revived: A Collaborative American Redistricting Project

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One thing I'm curious about reading this is how the choice to either maximize number of districts or go for bigger ones would impact political outcomes.

Assuming you keep the two parties system, I could see an all-3-seaters gerrymander to try to get 66% out of a state where you have a bare majority, for example. Alternatively, you could mix and match, put your opponents' 50%+1 on 7 seaters and your own on 3 seaters and hope this means they get 57% out of theirs and you get 66% out of yours?

Of course this relies on having enough county boundaries to arrange for those outcomes, and I'm not knowledgeable enough about US internal divisions to know how likely that is.

Edit: and of course individual popularity could easily scupper it all.
 
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