OPINION:
In “Court allows Pennsylvania to redraw GOP-favored district map” (Web, Feb. 5), you report that the Supreme Court is considering a number of district-redrawing cases. It shouldn’t have to consider any. There ought to be a law on the books, or an amendment to the Constitution, mandating a solution that ends these disputes permanently.
Here’s how it might work: Starting with the number of a state’s congressional districts, a computer would be programmed to take all the postal ZIP codes there and assemble them into that many congressional districts. The computer would make each district as nearly equal to the others in population and as nearly equilateral (square) as possible without breaking up any ZIP code.
Job done, and we would no longer need the word gerrymander.
JOHN S. MASON JR.
Alexandria
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