[EL] Gerrymandering quiz

[Thomas J. Cares]

Wherever a hideously-shaped district has served a "wonderful purpose,"
without a doubt, a larger multi-member district, with single transferable
voting, should have been used instead.


-Thomas Cares



On Wednesday, May 28, 2014, Justin Levitt <levittj at lls.edu> wrote:

>  If you want to go beyond Louisiana, the Brennan Center put out this quiz<http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/Democracy/14%20Dont%20Judge%20a%20Book%20By%20Its%20Cover.pdf>years ago (and updated on the eve of redistricting in 2010).
>
> Pretty districts can serve awful purposes, and ugly districts can serve
> wonderful purposes.  If you want to know whether a district is good or bad,
> you have to know what it's trying to achieve, not whether you'd want its
> "face" on a poster.  Or, in a comparison I'm fond of making, gauging
> whether a district is good or bad based on its outline alone is much like
> gauging whether a singer's voice is good or bad based only on how she
> looks <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS5Om47vsaA>.
>
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> Justin Levitt
> Professor of Law
> Loyola Law School | Los Angeles
> 919 Albany St.
> Los Angeles, CA  90015
> 213-736-7417justin.levitt at lls.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','justin.levitt at lls.edu');>ssrn.com/author=698321
>
> On 5/27/2014 9:36 PM, Rick Hasen wrote:
>
>
>    “Take this quiz and see if you can pick the ‘gerrymandered’
> redistricting plan” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61801>
>  Posted on May 27, 2014 4:57 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61801> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> This is fun<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/05/27/take-this-quiz-and-see-if-you-can-pick-the-gerrymandered-redistricting-plan/>from The Monkey Cage.
>
> To mangle Justice O’Conno<http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-357.ZO.htm>r,
> “Put differently, we believe that reapportionment is one area in which
> appearances [shouldn't] matter.”
>
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