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The Maltese single transferable vote experience: a case study of gerrymandering?
Constitutional Political Economy, 2023 Re-drawing the electoral boundaries to provide benefit to one particular political party and thereby damaging the principle of representation in democracy has been a core issue in political science in the recent years.
Serhat Hasancebi
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The Numbers Matter: An Update to the Implementation of New York’s Prison Gerrymandering Law
Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 2014 To combat the rise of “Prison-Based Gerrymandering”, the New York State Assembly enacted a law requiring prisoners to be counted in their “home” districts.
Devon Galloway
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Mathematical Analysis of Redistricting in Utah
Statistics and Public Policy, 2022 We discuss difficulties of evaluating partisan gerrymandering in the congressional districts in Utah and the failure of many common metrics in Utah. We explain why the Republican vote share in the least-Republican district (LRVS) is a good indicator of ...
Annika King +4 more
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Gauging Gerrymandering in Pennsylvania
Commonwealth, 2023 There is currently no widely accepted standard method to determine whether gerrymandering has occurred. To determine a cutoff for unreasonable gerrymandering, simulating collections of districting plans in the absence of partisan bias has been proposed ...
J. Russell, Benjamin Lieberman
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Optimal Legislative County Clustering in North Carolina
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 North Carolina’s constitution requires that state legislative districts should not split counties. However, counties must be split to comply with the “one person, one vote” mandate of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Daniel Carter +4 more
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Gerrymandering in the High School Classroom
Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2021 Teaching gerrymandering in our high school geometry classrooms provides students with a unique opportunity to use mathematics to describe, analyze and make sense of the world around them.
Kate Belin, Courtney Ferrell
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The Essential Role of Empirical Validation in Legislative Redistricting Simulation
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 As granular data about elections and voters become available, redistricting simulation methods are playing an increasingly important role when legislatures adopt redistricting plans and courts determine their legality.
Benjamin Fifield +3 more
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Understanding Our Markov Chain Significance Test: A Reply to Cho and Rubinstein-Salzedo
Statistics and Public Policy, 2019 The article of Cho and Rubinstein-Salzedo seeks to cast doubt on our previous paper, which described a rigorous statistical test which can be applied to reversible Markov chains.
Maria Chikina +2 more
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Using Intelligent Clustering to Implement Geometric Computation for Electoral Districting
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 Traditional electoral districting is mostly carried out by artificial division. It is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it is also difficult to maintain the principles of fairness and consistency.
Ying-Che Hung, Liang-Yü Chen
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Political districting without geography
Operations Research Perspectives, 2022 Geographical considerations such as contiguity and compactness are necessary elements of political districting in practice. Yet an analysis of the problem without such constraints yields mathematical insights that can inform real-world model construction.
Gerdus Benadè +2 more
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