[EM] Convex districts: a simple mathematical solution to gerrymandering?

[Scott Ritchie]

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 02:50 -0400, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
> Gerrymandering uses the systemic disenfranchisement of voters through 
> district elections to skew representation. That's all. Eliminate 
> district representation and gerrymandering becomes impossible.
> 
More specifically, gerrymandering exploits the wasted vote effect by
systematically concentrating wasted votes among a specific group of
people.  As a result, you can get rid of gerrymandering by any means
which lessens the wasted vote effect.  There's no need for asset voting
in particular - any form of proportional representation with larger
district magnitude will handle the wasted vote effect.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie