Cerabino: "Redistricting should be mapped by math wonks, not politicians" (find full article..)
It’s a bad idea to allow politicians to draw the boundary lines on voting districts? Only 6 percent of likely voters think that Congress is doing a good job, according to a new Rasmussen Report poll. And yet about 93 percent of the 435 members of the House of Representatives are overwhelming favorites to be re-elected in November. To a large extent, the culprit here is gerrymandering, a 200-year practice perfected by both parties to carve out boundaries of voting districts that create safe havens for re-election. When you let the winning team umpire the game, the winning team tends to keep winning.
The “shortest-splitline algorithm”, is mathematical and fair