gerrymandering

Interesting, this could add another layer of craziness on top of gerrymandering to nonproportional winner takes all repentation.

If gerrymandering persists, the dysfunction of Congress will also persist, no matter how many members there are.

I think gerrymandering is a little off-topic here, so I'll defer for now:-) The truth is, I think we might agree more than you think.

Now it just means that the public is involved in the selection of the ruling class, but the degree of this involvement is largely symbolic - see the US case with only 2 viable choices and the widespread gerrymandering.

There might be incentives, though, for groups to collude to create artificial identities in their networks, as a form of gerrymandering.

Extensive gerrymandering, equating money with free speech, and the two party system has made voting a waste of time in the US.

Of course, it doesn't solve the problem of getting whichever party currently benefits from gerrymandering to agree to switch to the neutral algorithm.

Combine that with the power of money in politics and gerrymandering and there is no way to fathom competition at the federal level.

This is for reasons unrelated to usage of words and has much more to do with campaign financing, gerrymandering, media control and so on.

Congress itself doesn't have that oversight (what with gerrymandering et al).

By drawing district lines around politically homogenous populations, gerrymandering guarantees that representatives accurately represent the views of their constituents and enables hyper-partisan behavior without consequences.

Statistical measuring, machine learning, etc in order to decide on political details, gerrymandering, etc.

Gerrymandering (aka partisan redistricting) 2.

Gerrymandering has existed for ages but only in recent years - with the advent of seriously high-powered data mining - has it had anything remotely close to the influence it now possesses.