Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game

[Roland99]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1639370584/mapmaker-the-gerrymandering-game/description

In Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game, you are a mapmaker, which means you make maps... and determine who wins elections. Can you crack and pack voters? Can you scheme and strategize? Can you create unfair, lopsided, strangely shaped districts that will guarantee your party's victory? Gerrymandering with friends and family (when it doesn't affect real voters) is a whole lot of fun.

[mucifer]

1. Here is my aldermanic ward in Rahm's Chicago:

Alderman Bob Fioretti annoyed Rahm so much that he was mapped out of his own ward. He then proceeded to run for mayor, lose and then endorse Emanuel so he could pay for his campaign. The new lobster-shaped second ward is far and away the most gerrymandered in the city. Aside from crustaceans, it kind of looks like a chunk of drywall that someone (Rahm?) punched in a bout of TIF-induced rage.

https://www.timeout.com/chicago/blog/chicagos-most-gerrymandered-wards-040115

That's my lovely ward.

[moondust]

2. Can we use computers?

Technology has made gerrymandering soooo much more precise and effective now than it was back when it all had to be done manually with pencil and paper.

[Garrett78]

3. Very clever. Props to the 3 siblings who created that.

Oddly shaped districts are unavoidable and necessary. The problem is how lopsided many districts are in terms of demographics and political affiliation.

Because Democrats are more concentrated, gerrymandering is much easier for Republicans to utilize. We need an impartial robot/computer to create fair boundaries. Districts would still be oddly shaped (in order to make them fair and more or less equivalent in population size).