[EM] Another auto districting proposal (Crystal districting?)

[Raph Frank]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
<km-elmet at broadpark.no> wrote:
> If you're dealing with redistricting, the competition solution that you
> mentioned could work, but it might well be that, for redistricting,
> capturing the exact tradeoff between looking like "communities of interest"
> and being completely neutral is a task best left to an independent
> commission.

Another option is to automatically generate a map, and then allow a
commission to tweak that map.

For example, you could have a rule that at least 85% of the people in
each district must be placed in the district that they were
automatically assigned to.