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Statistical Assessments of Representational Reforms: A Case Study from Los Angeles
Sarah Cannon, Evan T. R. Rosenman
Electoral reforms -- including changes to district boundaries, electoral rules, and the size of elected bodies -- are a recurrent feature of American state and municipal politics.…
cs.DM2026
Census Dual Graphs: Properties and Random Graph Models
Sara Anderson, Sarah Cannon, Brooke Feinberg +1
In the computational study of political redistricting, feasibility necessitates the use of a discretization of regions such as states, counties, and towns. In nearly all cases, res…
cs.DM2026
The Balanced Up-Down Walk
Hugo A. Akitaya, Sarah Cannon, Gregory Herschlag +3
Markov chains based on spanning trees have been hugely influential in algorithms for assessing fairness in political redistricting. The input graph represents the geographic buildi…