Re: What is the mathematics behind districting?

From: israel@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Israel)
Date: 6 Nov 2005 20:19:40 GMT

In article <u%Laf.9726$D13.1768@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chris Pollett <cpollett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>This Nov.8 in California there is going to be a special election in
>which one of the ballot initiative (Prop 77) concerns how district lines
>are drawn. This got me thinking about whether there is any mathematical
>way of saying one has drawn district lines reasonably?

See e.g. <http://www.valpo.edu/mathcs/ResearchPapers/gerryandtables.pdf>

Robert Israel israel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel
University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada

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References:
- What is the mathematics behind districting?
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