Fair redistricting is hard (Q2272397)
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Fair redistricting is hard (English)
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10 September 2019
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This paper studies the computational complexity of the problem of partitioning states into voting districts. Criteria to be satisfied by a fair distribution are discussed. It is shown that even for simple definitions of ``fair'' and ``legal'', deciding whether there exists a fair redistricting among legal maps is NP-hard, so that high computational complexity is inherent to the redistricting problem.
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NP-hardness
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computational complexity
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gerrymandering
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