Asked whether two “unconstitutional” acts make a right as Democrats look to counter GOP redistricting efforts, Ken Martin said, “In this case, I would say yes.”
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin defended California’s redistricting efforts while criticizing Republicans’ own efforts as unconstitutional.
“If they’re going to do this and continue doing this nonsense, which is unconstitutional and illegal, we’re going to be forced to do it ourselves in other states,” Martin said in an interview with NBC News, referencing GOP redistricting efforts.
Asked whether two unconstitutional acts make a right, Martin said, “In this case, I would say yes.”
His comments come as Californians will decide Tuesday whether to approve the state’s Prop 50 ballot measure, which would allow the state to redistrict to favor Democrats in the midterm elections. The move came in response to Republicans’ redistricting efforts in Texas to favor the GOP, which sparked redistricting battles in state legislatures across the country.
This redistricting nonsense is the most toxic development for democracy I’ve seen from the establishment ghouls in a very long time. Not good.
Why there isn’t a non-partisan committee that does this is a bit beyond me. Seems like a great job for AI tbh.
Bringing AI into redistricting would be a nightmare. AI is not objective, it’s trained on biased datasets and that bias is reinforced by the bias of whomever created it or wants to shape it to their will.
We already know how to do nonpartisan redistricting, and many states (including CA) already have a nonpartisan committee in charge of it. But since elections are managed by state and local governments, and explicitly not the federal government, it would take something like a constitutional amendment to make it required nationwide. That’s also why states like CA will temporarily use different maps this cycle (if all goes well tomorrow), because CA being fair and TX cheating doesn’t help the nation as a whole reflect its actual population. Might as well force the fairness by cheating like them. It’s a shitty stopgap, but they’ve left us no choice.
AI can’t even transcribe text properly. Pls don’t let it into government decision making. Just it being included in inputs is fucking us over.
AI is like a blender. If you put shit into the blender, that’s what you’ll get out.
Except unless you’re gonna train your own models, you really can’t avoid shit being put into it.
And as a personal rule, I generally avoid any blended cocktails with noticeable amounts of excrement in them.
You don’t need AI. There are computer algorithms to do it perfectly
Redistricting committees just obfuscates the politicization. You’ll have an “independent committee” full of Republicans, or the final vote for a redistricting map will be passed to the Supreme Court, encouraging the politicization of the judicial branch.
Just add ~5 at-large seats that are distributed to balance out to match the state-wide popular vote. That’s what they do in Europe. Then you can gerrymander all you want, but you’ll lose all the at-large seats if the local representatives don’t match the state-wide popular vote.