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End gerrymandering by finding the shortest perfectly straight line in the state which separates off 1/(no. of Congressmen) of the population. Then do it again and again until the state is divided into districts of equal population without politics playing any role in the division.

Example: 7 district state of 7 million people. Find the shortest line possible which separates District 1 (1M) from the remainder of the state.

Remainder (6M):

6M → Shortest line: District 2 (1M) + 5M
5M → Shortest line: District 3 (1M) + 4M
4M → Shortest line: District 4 (1M) + 3M
3M → Shortest line: District 5 (1M) + 2M
2M → Shortest line: District 6 (1M) + District 7 (1M)

Each split minimizes that specific line's length while hitting the 1M target.

It's deterministic and fair. Results would look kind of like this, for a 9-district state:


( image from https://rangevoting.org/SplitLR.html )

This is a plank of https://patrick.net/post/1303173/2017-02-19-patrick-s-platform