[EM] Brian Olson's district algorithm mentioned in 538 article re gerrymandering

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 01/26/2018 06:09 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Ted Stern <dodecatheon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hating-gerrymandering-is-easy-fixing-it-is-harder/
>>
>> There's a link to a nice interactive map, which includes Brian Olson's algorithm as the "mathematical" solution.
> 
> 
> Thanks for pointing that out, Ted!  There are also a bunch of us over
> on Facebook in "The Gerrymandering Project" discussion group over on
> Facebook.  One way to get there, go to this page:
> http://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-gerrymandering-project/
> 
> ...and click on "Join the discussion".  There was a complaint there in
> the past week or so about how the proportional representation
> advocates seemed to have taken over the place.  There was a suggestion
> that maybe there was a better forum to talk about proportional
> representation (and I was tempted to suggest this mailing list).

Why not? :-) It could use some traffic as it has been kind of slow the 
last few months. And proportional representation does solve the whole 
gerrymandering issue in a pretty neat manner, by rendering it mostly 
irrelevant!

(Well, up to a certain degree, mileage may vary etc...)