Re: [EM] Redistricting, now with racial demographics

2009-07-18 Thread Brian Olson
As this isn't something I really want it's going to be hard to get motivated to work it out. That said I think the way to go about it is to make unbiased districts by my current district, then pick one district with the highest proportion of the desired minority to elevate and adjust all the

Re: [EM] Redistricting, now with racial demographics

2009-07-18 Thread James Gilmour
If one of the requirements is to secure representation within a state for the significant (racial) minorities within that state, would it not make much more sense to start with a voting system that had such an objective rather than engage in deliberate distortion of district boundaries in an