North Carolina Congressional Map Ruled Unconstitutionally Gerrymandered

Jan 10, 2018

In the first decision of its kind, federal judges threw out North Carolina’s congressional map, saying it was drawn to favor Republicans​. iiD faculty member Jonathan Mattingly testified in the case.

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Sophie Guo, Math/PoliSci major, Bridget Dou, ECE/CompSci major, Sachet Bangia, Econ/CompSci major, and Christy Vaughn spent ten weeks studying different procedures for drawing congressional boundaries, and quantifying the effects of these procedures on the fairness of actual election results. Project Results There has already been research done with North Carolina districts, described in http://today.duke.edu/2014/10/mathofredistricting. There, Jonathan...