Department of Justice approves independent commission’s maps, on the first try. I guess this thing could work!

Their maps have 10% population variance. Mine have 2.5%. Theirs failed court challenges, twice.

No congressional districting to do; the local politics is still contentious. The issue in one place is keeping counties together vs splitting them.

State Supreme Court says that the State House districts are okay, but the State Senate districts are too suspicious and need fixing based on anti-gerrymandering rules.

The new state legislature districts were thrown out by the state supreme court, causing a reversion to the old Census-2000 maps. Is Pennsylvania liable in some way for getting this wrong? Is there any way to force through an equitable solution quickly? People will be under increasingly inaccurate representation for up to two more years.

Hey, in case this helps… http://bdistricting.com/2010/PA/

“Because (the) plan divides more counties than is required to do so, it violates … the Idaho Constitution and is therefore invalid,” according to an opinion written by Chief Justice Daniel Eisman

I find this fascinating, and wonder what writing an automatic redistricter that optimized for whole-county plans would look like.

Can’t gerrymander enough with N seats? Try again with N+1.