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The war that takes place throughout the country began where the president – or, as some see, saw, directing – Texas to re -draw its own congress map to give the Republican Party up to five seats in additional homes in the mid -term elections.

This procedure angered the Democrats, and pushing the most populated country, California, to redraw its map. Many other states, including Ohio, Florida and Indiana, have achieved the possibility of redrawing its maps, at the comprehensive GERRYMANERER Festival to pressure each last seat outside of Congress.

However, the maps drawn after the 2020 census were already good. Among a total of 435 seats, only 36 seats were considered competitors in 2022, defined as winners determining the margin of victory less than 5 percent. In 2024, the number of competitive seats jumped to 43.

Although the problem appears to be the expression of Congress maps, the real problem is how to determine the representation.

Popular vote in each region in Congress defines its winner, but the way in which the population of each state is dissected to the sections of separate areas of popular vote in each state. Since every seat in the province is represented by a winning vote for all, the design of the Congress map for each state effectively determines how voters in Congress.

Take, for example, Massachusetts. All nine congress seats are represented by Democrats. In the 2024 elections, five seats were indisputably. Among the four disputed races, the nearest victory margin was 13 percent. However, in the presidential race, it was 36 percent of the votes made to Donald Trump, the same percentage that voted for Republican candidates in the four disputed seats. This asks the question: Should 36 percent of voters have some representation of the Republican Party?

A similar situation occurred in Oklahoma, with all its five seats in the Congress maintained by the Republic, although 32 percent of the votes were made to Kamala Harris.

Given that the re -division of the mathematical circuits can draw the maps of the house that are either to the maximum, the provision of representation for voters is reasonable, or anything between them, there is no need to draw maps by re -dividing the role, whether independent or composed of partial lawmakers. The necessary appointment criteria can now be determined by state laws in the mapping algorithms. Examples of these standards include intensifying areas or preserving societies of interest. The only role for re -dividing circles is to determine the required bias for the map.

GerryMandered Maps explains that we no longer have a representation of people but rather the parties, which makes Congress an actual house of poor acting.

In essence, the problem is how to elect members of the House of Representatives, indirectly, the electoral college. As long as the voters’ preferences are full of separate seats in the provinces, the current limestone wars will continue to oppose the voters and ignore them. In fact, Trump told a group in 2024 during his campaign that they would not need to vote again if elected. Although he did not know what was going on in his mind specifically, it may be really true, given that the representation of voters is often determined.

Is there a solution?

Continue to hold elections with Congress areas. However, the number of seats that each party won by the popular vote on the state must be allocated to each party. After that, the best voting players are set, either in the absolute number or in the percentage of votes, in all provinces from each seat party, reaching the number of seats that the party won. This means that all actors in every state will be in a long time, and they represent all the population of the state.

A formula for approximation will be needed to determine which party gets part of the partial seat, very similar to how to use the division of Congress after each census to determine the number of home seats in each state.

With such a regime, in the state of Massachusetts, the Republicans had won two seats in Congress and the Democrats had won seven. In Oklahoma, the Republicans had won four seats and Democrats won seats. Such a process would neutralize the impact of the increase, as the distances of each state from the seats will be determined through the popular vote of the state, giving each voter qualification for the additional incentive to condemn his vote.

The net impact of this system is not likely to produce a difference in the total number of home seats that each party holds. However, it is redistributed by the party’s representation in all fifty states. More importantly, it will neutralize the benefits of infiltration into the parties, because the popular vote for each state will determine the representation.

A new system will require a change in the constitution, which is very unlikely in this glass political environment. However, without such a change, gerrymandering will continue to erode the voters and raise the power of parties.

Texas’s actions to re -draw the map of Congress in the middle of the period launched a war on democracy. More precisely, it took gerrymander to unprecedented levels. The end result will be the least representative of the voters and more partisan party policy.

What the “seat theft” effort explains in Texas is that in the eyes of the parties, the voters are no longer relevant. Every voter should write in the mid -term elections for the year 2026 who feels disgusted with this lack of respect in an unveiled candidate, the “other” – if this name wins a seat, a strong message will be sent until an amount of times is needed that the current toxic maps system is destroyed beyond the repair, and a new model of acting.

Shieldon e. Jacobson, PhD, Professor of Computer Science at Greenger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Champin. As a data scientist, he uses his experience in risk -based analyzes to address problems in public policy. He is the founder Institute for re -dividing the arithmetic circuits.