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Ask HN: Could you rig the US Elections?
Here's my question:
Through completely legal means, gerrymandering and redistricting, to redraw the district boundaries on a state by state basis to achieve the following goals:
1. Take a majority of state legislatures
2. Take a majority of seats in the House
3. Take a majority of seats in the Senate
4. Take a majority of Electoral College votes
5. For bonus points, take a 3/4 majority of state legislatures and thereby guarantee the control of constitutional amendments
Is this possible?
I know that it is ethically questionable, but when power comes into the game that doesn't matter. With cheap computing power, could you set up clusters to achieve these goals?
(Edited: Corrected the constitutional level to 3/4)