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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Hands-Off Redistricting Strategies
“Hands-Off” has a “Strategy”? Having argued the case that Congressional districts should be drawn in a hands-off way, it may seem contradictory to write about “strategies” for redistricting. But the strategies I am thinking about today don’t have to do … Continue reading
Posted in Boundary mathematics
Tagged congressional district boundaries, Hands-Off Redistricting, OPRA
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Is OPRA a Deterministic or Probabilistic Problem?
An almost universal pair of comments I get from readers so far has been a combination of two observations: 1. Wow, there is so much (social-political and mathematical) complexity to Hands-Off Redistricting! 2. Isn’t there a way to have a computer figure … Continue reading
A good idea, but is it possible to bring about?
From the posting of the YouTube video HandsOffRedistricting V1 I’ve already received some very thoughtful and interesting responses. Most were by email so I’ll anonymize the names, but there was a common thread in many of them: I don’t see a … Continue reading
Getting Underway
Like many Americans who pay attention, it grates on me to watch the brazen and corrosive politics behind the drawing of Congressional district boundaries. The political gains to be had from gerrymandering Congressional districts are not going to go away, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged congressional district boundaries, Hands-Off Redistricting, OPRA, Optimal Proximity
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