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Compact majority-minority districts almost never exist

Combinatorics 2024-08-13 v1 Metric Geometry Physics and Society

Abstract

For a uniformly distributed population, we show that with high probability, any majority-minority voting district containing a fraction of the population necessarily exhibits a tiny Polsby-Popper score.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.05832,
  title  = {Compact majority-minority districts almost never exist},
  author = {Boris Alexeev and Dustin G. Mixon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05832},
  year   = {2024}
}
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