# Anti-gerrymandering measures on Florida ballot

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gerrymandering-measures-on-florida-ballot/551396
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [August 25, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gerrymandering-measures-on-florida-ballot/551396 "2010-08-25T14:16:01Z")
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### Author: ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gerrymandering-measures-on-florida-ballot/551396/39 "2010-08-29T21:31:02Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> I’ve never understood why they just don’t use zip code area boundaries. It would make life so much easier.
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> “Rep. A represents zip code 77042 and the eastern half of zip code 77077, bounded by Dairy-Ashford Road. Rep. B represents the western half of zip code 77077, bounded by Dairy-Ashford Road, as well as zip code 77082.”
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> Etc. Oh, wait - that’s too logical. No wonder they don’t do it that way.

It isn’t at all logical.

Zip code areas are based on volume of mail, nothing to do with the number of eligible voters who live there. There are many office buildings that are a complete zip code on their own, but don’t have a single person living in the building. And we have a small town in Minnesota that does the processing for most coupons and mail-in rebates in the country – it is a very small town, about 1,000 houses – yet it has over 20 zip codes assigned to it.

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