# Can you devise a district drawing rule that would eliminate gerrymandering? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-devise-a-district-drawing-rule-that-would-eliminate-gerrymandering/654667 **Category:** Factual Questions **Created:** [April 2, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-devise-a-district-drawing-rule-that-would-eliminate-gerrymandering/654667 "2013-04-02T21:31:36Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 44
### Author: ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach) #### Post date: [April 3, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-devise-a-district-drawing-rule-that-would-eliminate-gerrymandering/654667/44 "2013-04-03T18:03:55Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Use Post Office Zip code boundaries. I think you proposed this [before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12854015&postcount=35), and you got these responses: > [@Anti-gerrymandering measures on Florida ballot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gerrymandering-measures-on-florida-ballot/551396/39): > > 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. > [@Anti-gerrymandering measures on Florida ballot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gerrymandering-measures-on-florida-ballot/551396/40): > > And even if zip codes were uniform with population, they’re still too small. There are over 40,000 zip codes in the US, and only 435 House districts, which means that the average House district will have close to 100 zip codes in it. That’s enough resolution to allow for plenty of gerrymandering. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-devise-a-district-drawing-rule-that-would-eliminate-gerrymandering/654667)._