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Math will solve gerrymandering #75

Open rapicastillo opened 7 years ago

rapicastillo commented 7 years ago

From pdw207:

I’m in contact with Sam Wang, a professor at Princeton who developed a test, published in the Stanford Law Review, for partisan gerrymandering. Because no one presented a test for partisan gerrymandering the supreme court rejected its legality and the supreme court will hear the issue again. (I think I summed that up correctly) Anyway, he needs help with a website to educate lawyers, judges and the general public and the calculator itself is rather clunky: gerrymander.princeton.edu so he needs some help. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/opinion/sunday/let-math-save-our-democracy.html https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/three-tests-for-practical-evaluation-of-partisan-gerrymandering/ http://election.princeton.edu/2016/11/24/a-lower-court-win-on-partisan-gerrymandering/

More info in the #gerrymandering channel in ProgCode slack!

StraubCreative commented 7 years ago

@rapicastillo I'd like to help with this!

davidmooreppf commented 6 years ago

I'm not affiliated with this group, but see @planscore effort, launching 2018: https://planscore.org/

stephenscapelliti commented 6 years ago

Thank you, @davidmooreppf. There could be some potential for collaboration between our organizations on the topic.