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- Title
NONPARTISAN POLITICAL REDISTRICTING BY COMPUTER.
- Authors
Hess, S. W.; Weaver, J. B.; Siegfeldt, H. J.; Whelan, J. N.; Zitlau, P. A.
- Abstract
OR volunteers developed a compactness measure and a `warehouse-location' heuristic to draw nonpartisan, Constitutional political districts. The heuristic maps compact and contiguous districts of equal population. The minimization criterion and compactness measure is population moment of inertia-the summed squared distances from each person to his district's center. The districting method is particularly useful when legislative impasse or indifference forces courts to intervene. Federal Courts have received a computer plan for possible use in Delaware and have asked for computer districts in Connecticut.
- Subjects
CONNECTICUT; UNITED States; APPORTIONMENT (Election law); NONPARTISAN elections; MATHEMATICAL programming; WAREHOUSES -- Location; HEURISTIC programming; COMPUTER programming
- Publication
Operations Research, 1965, Vol 13, Issue 5, p998
- ISSN
0030-364X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/opre.13.6.998