Automation can do a better job at drawing congressional districts than people can.

One thing that automation may be better at than people is the drawing of district lines for congressional districts.

I remember hearing, a few years back, that someone wrote a computer program to automatically draw district lines on a map. Two main criteria used were even population between districts and compactness of the districts.

They put the population data and map into the computer and let if automatically draw the lines. Nothing is perfect and it may still take some tweaking, but people, especially politicians fail at this. Here is where machines might do a better job.

Even an independent commission may not be as good as a machine at this, even though I am aware of the term "garbage in garbage out." Still I think the machines might do a lot better.