Mathematicians are deploying algorithms to stop gerrymandering

Image: Alexander Glandien. Article by Siobhan Roberts. MIT Technology Review – August 12, 2021.

With the 2020 US Census data release, states start the process of redrawing district maps. New computational tools will help hold politicians to account.

The maps for US congressional and state legislative races often resemble electoral bestiaries, with bizarrely shaped districts emerging from wonky hybrids of counties, precincts, and census blocks. It’s the drawing of these maps, more than anything—more than voter suppression laws, more than voter fraud—that determines how votes translate into […]

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