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If carefully done, something like this (where parties play a game to decide the borders) might avoid partisan gerrymandering, but there's also reason to be concerned about bipartisan gerrymandering where elected representatives from 2 (or more) parties prefer to have safe seats, so they agree to group voters with similar ones in a way that means it takes a very large swing for anyone to lose a seat and change the result.


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