As Texas Republicans try to muscle a rare mid-decade redistricting bill through the Legislature to help Republicans gain seats in Congress – at President Donald Trump’s request – residents in Austin, the state capital, could find themselves sharing a district with rural Texans more than 300 miles away.
The proposed map chops up Central Texas’ 37th Congressional District, which is currently represented by Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett, will be consumed by four neighboring districts, three of which Republicans now hold.
One of those portions of the Austin-area district was drawn to be part of the 11th District that Republican Rep. August Pfluger represents, which stretches into rural Ector County, about 20 miles away from the New Mexico border.
I wonder if an AI system could feasibility generate fair, compact, impartial districts given appropriate prompts - if those prompts were agreed upon by all parties, and the AI and associated data gathering administered by a 3rd party non-profit.
You don’t need “AI”, at least not the kind of unpredictable over-hyped bullshit called “AI”, whether it’s an LLM or something stupider.
https://bdistricting.com/2020/ applies an predicable algorithm to produce geographically compact, equal-population districts.
Of course, those are not the only “fairness” constraints we want to impose. The VRA “required” packing to ensure representation for historically disenfranchised populations, e.g.