ENDING GERRYMANDERING BY REPLACING MANIPULATION WITH MATH

Politicians pick their voters before the voters get to pick them. A transparent math rule for drawing district lines takes that power away.

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FACT

RIGGED LINES, RIGGED OUTCOMES.

A rigged map can turn a real majority into a managed minority before a single vote is cast. The election happens; the result was bent in advance.
Most U.S. House districts are drawn by the politicians who run in them or by partisan legislatures they control. The fox draws the henhouse.
Math-based redistricting — the shortest-splitline algorithm and its cousins — produces compact, contiguous districts a third grader can verify. No partisan hands, no political map rooms.
Replacing manipulation with math doesn't pick winners or losers. It picks a rule. The rule is the same in red states and blue states.

The Math Is The Argument

Stop making redistricting sound like homework.

The map below is the same one the lawmakers see — but drawn by math instead of mapmakers. Zoom into any state, compare the current rigged districts to the math-based version, and see what fair lines actually look like.

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THE FIX

REPLACE MANIPULATION WITH MATH.

REPEAL

Partisan map rooms where one party draws the lines for the next decade.
Backroom commissions and legal feints that exist to disguise rigging as process.
Bizarre, snaking districts engineered to crack and pack voters by race and party.
Court fights that drag for years while rigged maps run two or three elections.

BUILD

A single transparent rule: shortest-splitline math draws every congressional district.
Compact, contiguous districts any voter can verify with a ruler and a population count.
One algorithm, run on public Census data, producing the same map for everyone.
Federal standards that end the gerrymander as a tool of either party.

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