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by jmyc 4744 days ago
> Now, in all fairness they do have a cragy coast, but it is very clear the districts are unconscionably gamed.

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...