--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Raph Frank raph...@gmail.com wrote:
I would think that presetting the desired boundaries
would avoid that.
Pre-set boundaries have the disadvantage that the lead to
imbalances
in the voter to seat ratios.
A 5 seat district could have a population of anywhere
--- On Sun, 7/19/09, James Gilmour jgilm...@globalnet.co.uk 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
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
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
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Raph Frankraph...@gmail.com wrote:
From the link:
(i) has equal population districts to within 0.5%; and
Sounds reasonable, as the error in the census is likely higher.
However, the Supreme Court might object. They have ruled that equal
population is
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
