I am wondering what Warren would think of a slightly different approach. Rather than legislate a process that arrives at a reasonable district map, why not legislate a constraint on such maps, letting the legislators be as corrupt as they want within those constraints? I think some very simple constraints would go a long way in placing a ceiling on the amount of possible corruption. For example: A. All districts should be the intersection with the state of a convex region. B. All districts should be the intersection with the state of a latitude-longitude rectangle. It is true that these schemes permit maps to be marred with a few long, thin regions, but the amount of possible horror is greatly reduced. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane@gmail.com> wrote:
Warren, Thanks for those two links - they are spot on!
I have a couple of comments on the text that I'll send to you privately.
Best regards
Neil
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
I suggest you read this: http://rangevoting.org/TheorDistrict.html
and this: http://rangevoting.org/SplitLR.html
even better... do some (re)writing of the former...
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