"This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering" Summary

Christopher Ingraham starts his article off by talking about President Obama's State of the Union speech.  He quotes Obama when he says that "we have to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters, and not the other way around."  Ingraham explains gerrymandering, even offering a video to explain it more, and talks about how it is a problem and how some states are trying to fix it.

Ingraham says that although states are trying to fix this issue, as long as humans are drawing the lines, bias and self-interest will always find a way into the process.  He says that we need to let computers do the drawing for us.  He gives a map example of the current congressional district map and a map example of what a computer-drawn map would look like.  The computer has algorithms that prioritize compactness.  This is just one idea to fix the problem of gerrymandering but there are other solutions that could be made.

I chose this source from the Washington Post because writer Christopher Ingraham writes about politics, drug policy and all things data.  He also used to work at the Brookings Institution and the Pew Research Center.

Citation

 Ingraham, Christopher. "This Is Actually What America Would Look like without Gerrymandering." Washington Post. The Washington Post, Jan. 2013. Web. 07 Sept. 2016.