Reviews Political Geometry: Rethinking Redistricting in the US with Math, Law, and Everything In Between . Edited by Moon Duchin and Olivia Walch, Birkhäuser, 2022. 477 pp., ISBN 978-3319691602, $32.99.
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 If this real-life example doesn’t convince you, consider an imaginary state where 51% of the voters favor party A and 49% favor party B. If the voters of both parties are distributed uniformly across the state, every voting precinct will have 51% party A and 49% party B, and every possible district that can be drawn will have 51% party A and 49% party B. Thus party A will win ALL the districts, no matter how they are drawn.
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