A teenager redrew the Alabama voting map – and it’s now state law Daniel DiDonato, 18, drafted new state senate districts at home on free software – and a judge picked his map ahead of professionals’ efforts to remedy voting rights violations
Source: brithus
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I believe the children are the future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.
Well done, young man.
The fuck is this title
Heartwarming.
Why him? Let me draw it. One county will be 100% Republican and will zig zag through every Republican house. The other 6 would be Democrat
This is awesome and I like to believe it is demonstrating youth embracing the current landscape and trying to make change for the better and young bright minds like this person is inspiring to see in action. But does it show that it’s the current people in power having too myopic a view or is it their bias that they may try to be swaying in favor of one side or the other.
Great story! Great young man – respect!
Respect for that judge, too, for choosing his!
I assume he drew a “good” map?
People seem to forget that young people tend to have really smart ideas. It was iirc an elementary kid who suggested NASA make the tip of the rocket a cone instead of a sphere and it was immediately adopted in a facepalm moment.
If you read the article, you’ll notice he submitted a map with as little changes as possible to the original map. That’s why it was chosen.
Is just nice to see young people engaged and interested. Whether he made major changes or not (he didn’t), the fact an 18 year old actually knows what restricting maps is happiness all in itself.
>Ultimately, Manasco chose DiDonato’s plan because it only made changes to two districts instead of three while fixing the Voting Rights Act violation, and she said she was required to make as few changes as possible to the map.
This is a good thought exercise.
If you are a democrat or otherwise left leaning person, and you wonder how misinformation by mere suggestion works… check yourself right now. Did this headline work on you? Before you went and read the whole article, what did you assume based on the headline? That’s how right wing suggestive misinformation works too, on the other side of things.
I love state law Daniel DiDonato