[EM] A computationally feasible method

[Raph Frank]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> To gain even
> better trust that this set is the best one one could publish the best found
> set and then wait for a week and allow other interested parties to seek for
> even better sets. Maybe different parties or candidates try to find
> alternatives where they would do better. If nothing is found then the first
> found set is declared elected.

Brian Olson suggests this approach for his anti-gerrymandering proposals.

http://bolson.org/dist/USIRA.html
and
http://bolson.org/dist/

Ofc, he doesn't define "geographic centers of the districts", which
presumably means the centre of gravity of the district.

Maybe it would be better to define the centre of the district as the
average position of all the people in the district.

One possible problem is that it would allow people with very powerful
computers to gain an advantage.  The Republicans and the Democrats
would probably end up being favoured.

However, the advantage is likely to be slight.  Also, it could end up
that there was a SETI at Home like effort to find the 'true' best
arrangement (or maybe both party's supporters doing their own version)
Democrats at Home and Republicans at Home :)