An anonymous reader writes "Redistricting is a mess. The power that holds power in the state legislature can rig things so that it can in theory get twice as many congressional seats as their its support would justify. In 2003, Texas Republicans pushed through a redistricting measure that gave them 6 additional seats, and though the Democrats fled the state in an attempt to deny a quorum, they couldn't stop it. The Supreme Court upheld the redistricting, saying they had no way of measuring what is fair.
Now a mathematician has come up with a scheme which, he says, would guarantee a fair redistricting process. His techniques are similar to those used to divvy up a cake." Link to Original Source
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