He called the ruling a “huge win” over a “horrible gerrymander.” But Trump himself has ordered many GOP states to gerrymander maximally. So here Trump openly declared that Republicans reserve the right to rig elections while Democrats do not. His actual position is that Republicans should play by their own corrupt rules, a declaration of intent to functionally steal the midterms.

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    So we’re back to legislation and regulations picking people who we have to trust. Which is how it will always end.

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      How would a professor of computer science cheat? Remember there would be many other professors reviewing it.

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        They would cheat the same way any other committee would cheat. They would dismiss the biases they’re in favor of and highlight the biases they’re against. Or are you just assuming professors are completely objective and are paragons of virtue?

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          The computer program will be based on mathematics. Mathematics is not biased. Suppose someone wanted to divide a large piece of land into lots of equal sizes. How would the calculation be biased?