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I think the current analytical mechanism to achieve balance is by measuring the “efficiency gap.” https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?refer
by samch 9y ago
I think the current analytical mechanism to achieve balance is by measuring the “efficiency gap.”
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=http://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=12542&context=journal_articles https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?refe...
- jzylstra 9y agoThe recent coverage of considerations of the efficiency gap by the Supreme Court would be available here. The illustrative graphs provide a bit quicker of an introduction to the measure. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/courts-law/gerrymander/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/courts...
- jrauser 9y agoAccording to http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/08/22/analysis-large-efficiency-gap-new-legislative-maps-give-republicans-enormous-edge/#sthash.bJx6bwYA.dpbs http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/08/22/analysis-large-eff..., NC's efficiency gap is around -11, while anything in excess of +/- 7 is considered a very large gap, so by the efficiency gap metric NC's map is definitely extreme.