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

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Thanks for the tip, Rob!  I've requested to join.

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On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:09 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at robla.net> 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).
>
> Much of the more recent discussion has shifted toward whether the
> gerrymandering is really such a bad thing, and whether the electoral
> college is really such a bad thing.  Also, we've discussed a variant
> of CMU's cake cutting algorithm.  It's been an interesting discussion.
>
> Rob
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