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Gerrymandering and computational redistricting [PDF]
Journal of Computational Social Science, 2019 Partisan gerrymandering poses a threat to democracy. Moreover, the complexity of the districting task may exceed human capacities. One potential solution is using computational models to automate the districting process by optimizing objective and open criteria, such as how spatially compact districts are.
Olivia Guest +2 more
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Élections de 2020 aux États-Unis : des enjeux cartographiques renouvelés
EchoGéo, 2021 Starting out from the Fall 2020 elections in the United States, this article unpacks a few stakes of the cartography of the presidential and House of Representatives election results. The maps of results at the state level as well as the county level, in
Christine Zumello
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A Computational Approach to Measuring Vote Elasticity and Competitiveness
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 The recent wave of attention to partisan gerrymandering has come with a push to refine or replace the laws that govern political redistricting around the country.
Daryl DeFord +2 more
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Citizens' Participation in Electoral Governance: A Redistricting Process
Вопросы элитологии, 2020 Citizens’ participation in electoral governance can be considered as a means for insuring electoral integrity. Some cases and problems of this participation are discussed in contemporary literature.
Nikolai V. Grishin
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Cahiers du MIMMOC, 2014 The Redistricting is one of the most important ways of redrawing the district boundaries in the United States of America. The widespread use of citizens redistricting commissions conveys to several new focus points.
Émilie BONNET
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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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Connecticut Redistricting Analysis
CoRR, 2022 Connecticut passed their new state House of Representatives district plan on November 18, 2021 and passed their new state Senate district plan on November 23, 2021. Each passed unanimously in their 9-person bipartisan Reapportionment Commission; however, the process has been criticized for legislators controlling the process and for the negotiations ...
Kyle Evans, Katherine T. Chang
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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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Modélisation de répartition d’élèves et délimitation de secteurs scolaires en milieu urbain
Belgeo, 2017 In the midst of a school reform context and following its continuous population growth, the city of Lausanne had to re-examine various aspects of the management of its public schools.
Théophile Emmanouilidis
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Quantifying Gerrymandering in North Carolina
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 By comparing a specific redistricting plan to an ensemble of plans, we evaluate whether the plan translates individual votes to election outcomes in an unbiased fashion.
Gregory Herschlag +6 more
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