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Like All Things, Technology Could Solve Gerrymandering
The solution to gerrymandering is right under America's nose, but partisan fighting has made the nation blind to an obvious solution.
Staff Columnist
Jack Shields is a Staff Columnist for 71 Republic writing on law, elections, and political institutions. He graduated summa cum laude from Texas A&M University with a degree in history, earned his J.D. from Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law, and served as a judicial law clerk for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Madison. He was a journalist for The College Fix and a Staff Columnist and editor at Lone Conservative.
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The solution to gerrymandering is right under America's nose, but partisan fighting has made the nation blind to an obvious solution.
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