[EM] District continuity preserving re-districting

[Niemzinski at ecybermind.net]

 Quoting Ernest Prabhakar <drernie at mac.com>:
 
> Using existing census data, one could trivially create open source 
> software that would suggest possible districts.  Anyone could submit 
> potential redistricting, and  and one could have a university collect 
> and publish the results based on objectively verifiable criteria.   I 
> suppose one could even add a third measure of 'minimal population 
> transfers' to reward proposals that minimized discontinuities, if the 
> first two weren't definitive enough.

As far as I can see there is no advantage for open source over propriety
software here.  All we are interested in is the best legal districting.  How it
was obtained/calculated is of no interest to the public or the government. 
Nevertheless, it may be usefull to have such open source software for
experimentation.

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