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Using Short Bursts To Optimize Redistricting In Georgia, Vedika Vishweshwar
Using Short Bursts To Optimize Redistricting In Georgia, Vedika Vishweshwar
CMC Senior Theses
Identifying extreme outliers in large state spaces is a difficult prob-
lem. I consider this problem in the context of finding political district-
ing plans that maximize the number of districts in which the majority
of the population is from a minority group, such as African Americans.
Since the set of all possible districting plans is enormous and unfeasi-
ble to examine in practice, this paper proposes a sampling method to
find these outlying plans. Specifically, this paper experiments with short
bursts in the context of minority voting rights in Georgia. Short bursts
are a type of Markov Chain in …