How would a computer program be manipulated to favor a certain party? The computer program would probably have a cursor start from the top of a state and move from left to right. Once it encompasses a specific population number it would put a figure around it and mark it as a district. Once it reaches the right border of the state, it would go down and move to the left. This would continue until the state is complete.
Take it from a developer who has built larger systems for over 30 years: If you want to write a piece of software to automate some process, first you need to understand what that process does, and why. If you don’t know either, you should not be building software to automate that. If you don’t understand that concept, please don’t write software at all
My suggestion is for the US government to have companies bid for the redistricting software. I’m sure the companies bidding would be very knowledgeable.
How would a computer program be manipulated to favor a certain party? The computer program would probably have a cursor start from the top of a state and move from left to right. Once it encompasses a specific population number it would put a figure around it and mark it as a district. Once it reaches the right border of the state, it would go down and move to the left. This would continue until the state is complete.
Take it from a developer who has built larger systems for over 30 years: If you want to write a piece of software to automate some process, first you need to understand what that process does, and why. If you don’t know either, you should not be building software to automate that. If you don’t understand that concept, please don’t write software at all
My suggestion is for the US government to have companies bid for the redistricting software. I’m sure the companies bidding would be very knowledgeable.
That is a terrible idea. Don’t ever design important software.
Any software…
Why is a terrible idea?