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End U.S. House of Representatives district gerrymandering

Created by K.H. on August 17, 2015

The Federal Election Commission should put an end to the gerrymandering of districts of U.S. House of Representatives by using a non-political method of creating districts: The USPS-assigned Zip Codes, along with the most recent US Census data.

Example #1: If a state now has 6 representatives (according to Census count), then the "first" district in that state would be calculated by starting with the lowest numbered Zip Code in the state and adding adjacent-numbered districts until the number of residents living in those sequentially Zip Codes totaled 1/6th of the state's population. The "second" district would tally Zip Codes until the second 1/6th of population was counted.

If the next census said that state now had 5 representatives, "1/5" would be the threshold.

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