1 Jan
2004
1 Jan
'04
4:06 p.m.
From a letter in the 5 Jan 2004 New Yorker magazine, offering a solution to the problem of congressional district gerrymandering:
"...what we really need are congressional districts drawn apolitically by a computer program that would not consider race, income, voting record, or party affiliation. The program could draw lines so that they would (1) equalize populations in the districts, (2) minimize the sum of the boundary lines, and (3) minimize the distances between the area of maximum population density in each district and that district's boundaries..." (Why further variables aren't simultaneously minimized or maximized I don't know) Thane Plambeck 650 321 4884 office 650 323 4928 fax http://www.plambeck.org