Ep. 38 | Can Robots Save Us From Gerrymandering? | Guest: Eric Boehm
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Gerrymandering is a time-honored and artistic craft wherein politicians get to pick their voters instead of having an actual competitive election. Reason's Eric Boehm joins Heaton to discuss ways to neuter the skullduggery. (Possibly involving robots.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host, The Paper Boy. |
| 0:15.0 | And today my friends, we're going to go down the Wancol. |
| 0:18.0 | We're going to talk about one of my least favorite things, yet favorite subjects, which is gerrymandering. |
| 0:22.0 | If you're not familiar with gerrymandering. |
| 0:22.8 | If you're not familiar with gerrymandering, |
| 0:24.4 | I invite you to listen to the program |
| 0:26.2 | and get your blood pressure elevated |
| 0:27.7 | through sheer unmitigated rage. |
| 0:30.0 | But if you are familiar with gerrymandering, |
| 0:31.4 | and I suspect you are, Eric Baum from Reason |
| 0:34.0 | is going to join me, and I suspect we might be able to come up with some good solutions. |
| 0:38.0 | And in fact, my hope is we can save the republic itself from sheer partisanship and fool doggery, which is definitely a thing, using |
| 0:49.9 | robots. |
| 0:50.9 | That is my hope for this, so stay tuned. |
| 0:52.4 | But before we get into that, we do need to give |
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