Interesting project, but I would like to know more about the algorithms
used. For example, were the "Good Government" (GooGoo) maps drawn only
to be (e) equipopulous, (2) contiguous, (3) simply connected, (4)
compact, and (5) snap to existing boundaries, without regard for voting
history, incumbency, or ethnicity? If so, then they correspond to my
reform proposal of 2003, discussed here.
They also raise the question of whether maps drawn in this way avoid
the requirements of Sec. 5 of the Voting Rights Act, since such a
method affords no opportunity for discriminatory intervention.
Do you have databases for all the states, and about how long does it
take to generate a map?
-- Jon
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