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Turning Communities of Interest into a Rigorous Standard for Fair Districting

Sandra J. Chen, Samuel S.-H. Wang, Bernard Grofman, Richard F. Ober, Kyle T. Barnes, and Jonathan R. Cervas. Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 18, 2022.

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Summary

Proposes a rigorous, operational standard for incorporating “communities of interest” into fair districting, turning a vague and often manipulable criterion into something measurable and defensible.