<HTML><BODY>From: bolson@bolson.org<br>
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<div id="AOLMsgPart_3_888c7b7a-f8a3-40b1-b4d9-d2d0e17b63df">> Since that grows all the districts in parallel, but approximately
doubling districts at each step, at the end <br>
> you'll have some districts
with about double the population of other districts.
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Yea, I <span class="correction" id="">sorta</span> said that at the end.<br>
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I think that breaking the country up into simple blocks could allow similar algorithms though.<br>
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Each of these blocks would have a population that is less than the maximum <br>
allowable error. This allows the algorithm to operate on those blocks rather <br>
than complex <span class="correction" id="">geo</span> data from the census.<br>
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New Plan for single <span class="correction" id="">seater</span> districts based on the split line algorithm:<br>
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The total population of the country is divided by the number of seats to be filled.<br>
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This shall be the target population per seat.<br>
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The maximum and minimum shall be 5% above and below this target.<br>
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Each county shall be split into sub-county regions. <insert hard to change rule><br>
(Max population = (2%)? of the target)<br>
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The country shall be split using the following algorithm recursively with the entire<br>
country being the top level region. Recursion shall stop for regions which have only<br>
one seat allocated to them.<br>
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The region shall be divided in two by the shortest boundary that divides the region in 2 such that <br>
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- the boundary must follow county boundaries<br>
- seats can be allocated between the 2 sub-regions such that the sub-region population per seat assigned<br>
... is within the max and minimum permitted<br>
- the 2 sub-regions are contiguous<br>
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Seats shall be allocated between the 2 sub-regions using the allocation that is closest to the <br>
correct proportions as based on the 2 sub-regions' population.<br>
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If <span class="correction" id="">no such</span> boundary is possible, the same procedure is applied, but boundaries can <br>
follow sub-county regions.<br>
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<div style="clear: both;"><span class="correction" id="">Raphfrk</span><br>
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Interesting site<br>
"what if anyone could modify the laws"<br>
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<span class="correction" id="">www</span>.<span class="correction" id="">wikocracy</span>.<span class="correction" id="">com</span></div>
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