Computer generated models look visually pleasing to the eye, but that's about it. They can be pretty balanced around population, but there's not much evidence i've seen that they can divy up land geographically/industrially related and not, say, pack all minorities into one district.
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Originally Posted by Louis Cyphre
How about not looking at racial demographics data at all when drawing district lines?
sure, you can do that as well. you might end up with minorities having zero representatives aligned with their preferences, thus less minority representation, but hey, at least we can say we drew boundaries in a random fashion.
this problem is one of the many easily solved by proportional representation, of course. >.>