The U.S. Supreme Court is currently deliberating over whether a proposed mathematical formula should be used to detect unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. We show that in some cases, this formula will only flag bizarrely shaped districts as potentially constitutional.
Boris Alexeev and Dustin G. Mixon
An impossibility theorem for gerrymandering
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