Unbiased Congressional Districts
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This paper presents a strategy for dividing a state into congressional districts using a modified version of Smith and Ryan’s recursive shortest splitline algorithm (2007). Our strategy reduces the cost of the computation by approximating the population of a ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) as a point mass at its population centroid. If there are N ZCTAs in the state with E total edges, and k districts to be created, our algorithm runs in expected O((N + E) · logk) time.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008