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by hga
4751 days ago
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Exquisitely gerrymandered. Wikipedia closes with this note on the current one: "In 2012 the district was found to be the eleventh least compact congressional district in the United States." And a link to this article, which shows that district, and is titled "Maryland has least compact congressional districts in nation": http://marylandreporter.com/2012/10/03/maryland-has-least-co... Now, in all fairness they do have a cragy coast, but it is very clear the districts are unconscionably gamed. |
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I'm not sure how it was done in the source for that news article, but gerrymandering-detection algorithms should ignore natural borders in that regard. See, for example, this paper which measures gerrymandering in terms of convexity: http://mathdl.maa.org/images/upload_library/22/Polya/Hodge20...