"Because if everyone voted, it would be prohibitively expensive to gerrymander down to small areas such as individual city-blocks. "
Citation needed.
This is honestly a pretty trivial ILP problem.
Certainly you realize they already know each individual voter's political affiliation if they've declared one or votedin primaries?
The data set also includes their address,etc.
I've seen the data they used.
Heck, we were the only ones who asked the data providers to not include people's names or other PII (we just wanted to map street segments to political districts), and they pretty much laughed and said nobody had asked for that before.
Citation needed.
This is honestly a pretty trivial ILP problem.
Certainly you realize they already know each individual voter's political affiliation if they've declared one or votedin primaries? The data set also includes their address,etc.
I've seen the data they used.
Heck, we were the only ones who asked the data providers to not include people's names or other PII (we just wanted to map street segments to political districts), and they pretty much laughed and said nobody had asked for that before.