[EM] Even simplier anti-gerrymandering rule

[Jonathan Lundell]

At 6:50 PM -0800 11/8/06, Brian Olson wrote:
>0.5% is readily achievable by my solver. A US House district is 
>300000000/435 = 689655 people. 1% of that is of course a 6897 person 
>variability from district to district. I think people might whine 
>about this; it affects the degree to which they are represented. It 
>won't necessarily be a logical argument.
>
>Also the wider the margin the greater possibility for distortion to 
>malicious ends (depending on the exact method of picking within the 
>constraint). Of course current districts are equal population to 
>within 100 people according to Census data and are still distorted in
>some extreme ways.

Wyoming and Montana each have one district, and 509,294 & 935,670 
people respectively. Rhode Island has two districts and 1,076,189 
people.

The 1% rule (or whatever) must be intra-state only.
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/Jonathan Lundell.