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by bradleyjg 3270 days ago
> Programmers like to come up with mathematical plans like this, but you would likely run into the Voting Rights Act!

More generally, many mathematically inclined people eventually come to the conclusion that we should have some sort of multi-member scheme but that too is bared by federal law -- 2 USC 2c (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/2c)