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physics.soc-ph2022★ 6 cited
Spanning Trees and Redistricting: New Methods for Sampling and Validation
Sarah Cannon, Moon Duchin, Dana Randall +1
Deciding whether a political districting plan was distorted by a hidden agenda, or whether it dilutes the voting power of some group, requires a neutral baseline for comparison. Re…
physics.soc-ph2020★ 2 cited
Voting Rights, Markov Chains, and Optimization by Short Bursts
Sarah Cannon, Ari Goldbloom-Helzner, Varun Gupta +2
Finding outlying elements in probability distributions can be a hard problem. Taking a real example from Voting Rights Act enforcement, we consider the problem of maximizing the nu…