At 6:50 PM -0800 11/8/06, Brian Olson wrote: >0.5% is readily achievable by my solver. A US House district is >300000000/435 = 689655 people. 1% of that is of course a 6897 person >variability from district to district. I think people might whine >about this; it affects the degree to which they are represented. It >won't necessarily be a logical argument. > >Also the wider the margin the greater possibility for distortion to >malicious ends (depending on the exact method of picking within the >constraint). Of course current districts are equal population to >within 100 people according to Census data and are still distorted in >some extreme ways.
Wyoming and Montana each have one district, and 509,294 & 935,670 people respectively. Rhode Island has two districts and 1,076,189 people. The 1% rule (or whatever) must be intra-state only. -- /Jonathan Lundell. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
