[Mpls] Redistricting

Tim Bonham t-bonham at scc.net
Mon Nov 21 13:02:44 CST 2005


>In this day and age, virtually all redistricting done by people is by
>definition corrupt in my view.
>
>There's no reason why it can't be done by a computer program, using GIS and
>census data -- but without any political affiliation data.  We would end up
>with political-party neutral, and much fairer districts.
>
>But I know it's not going to happen in my lifetime.  Politicians are too
>self-centered to actually put the public first.
>
>--
>Chris Johnson
>Fulton
         That just changes the issue to "who gets hired to write that 
computer program?"

The votes in Ohio last year were "counted" by a neutral, non-human 
computer system, remember?
Designed by Diebold, chaired by Bush's state campaign committee chair.

Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson




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