--- On Sun, 7/19/09, James Gilmour wrote:
> You may be interested to know that the Boundary Commission
> for Scotland experimented with some computer-based
> algorithms for drawing
> district boundaries when fed the geographical locations of
> all our electors. They abandoned them all because
Brian Olson wrote:
I've updated my redistricting site ( http://bolson.org/dist/ ) to
include the racial breakdown of all current congressional districts
(sometimes interesting by itself) and that of the compactness based
districts I have come up with. If you want you can jump directly to
http:
Brian Olson > Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 6:25 AM
> Oh yes, I'm very much in favor of Proportional Representation
> methods.
We can agree on that!
> But for the foreseeable future we will have problems with drawing
> districts and drawing better districts
Yes, I can see the attraction (nec
