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theusernamesusername t1_iwqyuf2 wrote

Eli5 why this is a thing? Why isn't it just by town?

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realnrh t1_iwr05bq wrote

Some towns aren't large enough to get a representative of their own, because the voting has to be even by humans-per-representative. So a town of 15 people doesn't get the same representation as a town of 15,000 people. Therefore they need to draw districts allocating people to different areas that one person will represent in the legislature. They have to give a rep to any town big enough to merit one of their own.

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