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Consider a state with twelve districts: six 75-25 A-B, six 75-25 B-A. Votes are even, seats are even; the state isn't gerrymandered. So it isn't the case that
by mjw1007 9y ago
Consider a state with twelve districts: six 75-25 A-B, six 75-25 B-A. Votes are even, seats are even; the state isn't gerrymandered.
So it isn't the case that a state where every district is split 75-25 is necessarily heavily gerrymandered.
On the other hand, if all twelve districts are 75-25 A-B then it seems like B has three fewer seats than it deserves, which does suggest that that definition of an efficiency gap is missing something.
- phailhaus 9y agoYeah, it seems like the metric can't tell the difference between the two situations...