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Gerrymandering is most effective when you know exact voting patterns of each household so you can draw the lines to get the result you want. Differential privac
by vlovich123 4mo ago
Gerrymandering is most effective when you know exact voting patterns of each household so you can draw the lines to get the result you want. Differential privacy blurs those boundaries and provides more room for the partisan hacks to make a fatal mistake.
- dash2 4mo agoSounds very unlikely in practice. Any evidence anyone actually tried to deanonymize this data for this purpose?
- m3047 4mo agoThis is nowhere near household level but is it good enough for horseshoes or hand grenades? I did this almost 20 years ago. I could combine this with aerial and streetview, ALPRs, DMV data, smartphone telemetry... http://athena.m3047.net/elections/36th-dist-colored.html http://athena.m3047.net/elections/36th-dist-colored.html http://athena.m3047.net/elections/dist-not-normal/distribution-not-normal.html http://athena.m3047.net/elections/dist-not-normal/distributi...