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Originally posted by bilmore
I figured it was lazy journalistic shorthand that lent an air of evil to the situation as a replacement for "gerrymandering", which few readers actually understand and which the journalists don't want to take the time to explain. It's like calling the new systems out for being done in red ink instead of black - it has nothing to do with the problem, but it gives some jingoistic label for them to focus on when they want to talk about the bad system
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Nope. The "computer-assisted" piece is important, because the computing power gives the legislators/staffers the ability to process and apply all the census and survey and voting data to the redistricting process on a block-by-block level.
Thus, they can gerrymander better, more precisely, and more effectively than was possible pre-1990 (and probably pre-1995).
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