# Are we paying the price for such an inexperienced President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 29, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-paying-the-price-for-such-an-inexperienced-president/645510 "2012-12-29T19:44:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 110
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-paying-the-price-for-such-an-inexperienced-president/645510/110 "2013-01-01T18:33:12Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I couldn’t say whether or not Republicans took gerrymandering to an unprecedented extent in 2010, but in any event it’s true both sides have done it to their advantage and that this element of the political system shouldn’t be in the hands of partisan elected officials. Since it is, I’m not sure how it can be fixed. > [@How could gerrymandered districts be un-gerrymandered?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-gerrymandered-districts-be-un-gerrymandered/640391/99): > > You have 53 districts in California to divvy up. Assume that every voter has a SSN. Assume that the distribution of final three digits of SSNs is fairly uniform. > > The representative from District 1 will represent those voters whose SSNs end in 000-018. > The representative from District 2 will represent those voters whose SSNs end in 019-037. > The representative from District 3 will represent those voters whose SSNs end in 038-056. > > And so on. > > Seven of the districts will represent blocs of voters with eighteen unique final threes. > > Each state will adjust this formula to accommodate the total number of congressional districts. There you have it. No gerrymandering. I proposed this one nearly six weeks ago. The fact that no one even TRIED to find a problem with it I take as evidence that it HAS no problems. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-paying-the-price-for-such-an-inexperienced-president/645510)._