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News Articles:
Newly gerrymandered districts might hurt Democrats less than you think (Published in the Washington Post)
The Silver Lining in the Supreme Court Gerrymandering Decision (Published in The Hill)
Upcoming Talks:
Brown MathFest 2022: The Mathematics of Redistricting, Making Your Vote Count: Using Mathematics to Detect and Prevent Gerrymandering, Oct 1, 2022
Brown Joint Applied Math/Math Seminar, The GEO Metric and Other Mathematical Metrics to Detect Gerrymandering, Sept 28, 2022
Research Articles:
The Geography and Election Outcome (GEO) Metric: An Introduction with M. Campisi, T. Ratliff, and S. Somersille (to appear in Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy)
Declination as a Metric to Detect Partisan Gerrymandering with M. Campisi, A. Padilla, and T. Ratliff Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2019)
The Efficiency Gap, Voter Turnout, and The Efficiency Principle Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2018)
Sites and Resources for those interested in exploring:
The Gerrymandering Project from 538; for general public consumption.
Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group; headed by Moon Duchin from Tufts
Quantifying Gerrymandering; the math group from Duke.
Wesley Pegden and others at Carnegie Melon have worked on addressing gerrymandering
All About Redistricting; Justin Levitt of Loyola Law's guide to the redistricting process
Wendy Cho has been influential in this area
Representable is interested in helping communities of interest in the redistricting process
Districtr and Open Precincts want to help the public have the tools we need to analyze districting maps
Dave's redistricting app can be used to create maps