Are all of these the same population size? That is roughly what our districts are, partitions of our populace into ~equal regions. Our nearest second level partition would be counties, which are drawn based on characteristics that largely remained static since their creation (1600s). Districts are generally redrawn every 10 years, but well… here we are.

In theory, districts are supposed to be race blind, and group together people based on rough location. But they don’t necessarily need to be the least complex shapes (hexagons), because that generally isn’t how humans have settled in areas. Again, in theory it was meant to capture groupings of people who would want or deserve similar representation but aren’t optimally clumped together. Instead, both sides have abused the lack of simple shapes rule to really fuck with representation. In particular, these last 20 years have seen the worst gerrymandering abuses because computing power progress made it feasible to gerrymander with ease. In theory past it has generally been held that redistricting happens every 10 years, so the middle of every third president.

It is a prototype.

Their development roadmap specifically mentions Android AND iOS versions…

I haven’t reviewed the whole thing, only small parts but it does look to handle online verification better (re: invasiveness).

There is a section talking about a prototype app already released that is used to store age. It verifies off a couple different government docs (ID, bank details, upcoming Digital ID), but in the end only stores the user’s age (no name, ID, birth date, or other details). The fact page for the app claims that once age is established there is no further contact between the user and age verifier, but of course this is where I likely see the issue with any age verification tool. It’ll depend on whether the verification tool trashes age-related data once done with it, or if they retain a copy for whatever reasons.

Proof of age is tied to the age required per country per activity, but this sounds far more reasonable than having a single company verify and manage age data (Persona in the US).