Redistricting: Drawing the Line

Apr 13, 2017

Jonathan Mattingly’s iiD projects on gerrymandering recently resulted in a published paper on the topic in Arxiv. The paper represents the most comprehensive analysis of the team’s work and was the basis of Mattingly’s expert testimony for the Common Cause Law suit against North Carolina for partisan gerrymandering.

Among the paper’s authors are four undergraduates, a graduate student and a post-doctoral student.

Download the paper to see the results yourself!

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