A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes

10/24/2017
by   Wesley Pegden, et al.
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We design and analyze a protocol for dividing a state into districts, where parties take turns proposing a division, and freezing a district from the other party's proposed division. We show that our protocol has predictable and provable guarantees for both the number of districts in which each party has a majority of supporters, and the extent to which either party has the power to pack a specific population into a single district.

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