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.
Yes, but Democrats should continue to publicly push for a computer districting program. It’s something that people will easily understand as impartial.
Well, they’d have to be very careful in that language. The cons absolutely used computers to draw maps - it was the REDMAP scheme.
What must be emphasized is independent commissions to draw district lines, perhaps informed by computers. But computers can and have been weaponized to draw maps - the REDMAP scheme is called “gerrymandering on steroids” and it’s that way because of computers turned to nefarious ends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP
Democrats would point out that the computer program would be subjected to peer review. It could also be open source.