Gerrymamlering, which has been in the news again lately, is the practice of carv

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Gerrymamlering, which has been in the news again lately, is the practice of carving up electoial districts in very careful wavs so as to lend to outcomes that favor a particular political party. Recent, court challenges to the practice have argued that through this calculated re-districting, large numbers of vote is are being effectively (and intentionally) disenfranchised. Computers, it turns out, have been implicated as some of the main "villains" in much of the news coverage on this topic: it is only thanks to powerful software that gerrymandering grew from an activity carried out by a bunch of people with maps, pencil, and paper into the industrial-strength process that it is today. Why is gerrymandering a computational problem? Partly it's the database issues involved in tracking voter demographics down to the level of individual streets and houses; and partly it's the algorithmic issues involved in grouping voters into districts. Let's think a bit about what these latter issues look like. Suppose we have a set of n precincts P 1, P 2,..., P n, each containing m registered voters. We're supposed to divide these precincts into two districts, each consisting of n/2 of the

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