Can Gerrymandering Be Ended via Machine Learning?

By datasciencecentral - 2021-03-16

Description

Gerrymandering has long been a problem in the process of choosing elected officials globally, but it is especially a problem in the United States, where politi…

Summary

  • Pundits quickly seized upon the new district's resemblance to a dragon or salamander, and the portmanteau term "gerrymander" entered the English language as a political district map clearly designed to protect the interests of one party or another.
  • It has factored fairly heavily in politics, as a gerrymandered map can entrench a given party for decades.
  • Ultimately the question of fairness as a measurable quality has been raised because in general a fair map is more likely one where there is a consensus among state voters as to the direction of a party.

 

Topics

  1. Machine_Learning (0.28)
  2. NLP (0.25)
  3. Management (0.14)

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