Closed Jfer09 closed 1 year ago
I'll let Chris weigh in on VRA stuff, but this looks very solid to me!
Can we also edit the top of the documentation?
[Guidelines for the House Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Committee](https://www.dropbox.com/s/i8zqyivtr8iozs8/GeorgiaSenateCommitteeGuidelines2011-12.pdf)
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Redistricting requirements
In Georgia, under the 2011-12 Guidelines for the House Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Committee: districts must:
Guidelines for the House Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Committee
Algorithmic Constraints
We enforce a maximum population deviation of 0.5%.
Data Sources
Data for Georgia comes from the ALARM Project's 2010 Redistricting Data Files.
Pre-processing Notes
No manual pre-processing decisions were necessary.
Simulation Notes
We sample 60,000 districting plans for Georgia across two independent runs of the SMC algorithm. We then thin the sample to exactly 5,000 plans.
We impose a hinge constraint on the Black Voting Age Population so that it encourages districts with BVAP above 43%, but districts with BVAP of 34% or less are not penalized as much. In addition, we impose an inverse hinge constraint on the Black Voting Age Population to penalize districts with BVAP above 61% to prevent packing.
Validation
Checklist
TODO
lines from the template code have been removedenforce_style()
to format my coderedist_map
andredist_plans
objects, and summary statistics) have been editeddelete this line and all the tags except the reviewers you need @CoryMcCartan @christopherkenny