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Getting unequal population via constraints ? #413
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Could you elaborate? It's not clear to me exactly what you're asking. Is your goal to require that a partition have a certain degree of inequality between its different districts? If so, then there doesn't exist a pre-existing validator for this, but it wouldn't be hard to write one, you can check out the validators in |
Sorry, I added some more info to the main question. The idea is to get somehow (I guess that via constraints), as you said, a certain degree (probably the maximum possible) of inequality between its different districts in terms of population. Kind of opening the population bounds as far as I can while keeping contiguity (at the moment i'm not really worried about compactness). |
@hunsao In that case you need to write your own validator. One does not exist out of the box to accomplish that. |
Thanks for replying. I could imagine it since the study of gerrymandering usually does not contemplate these types of scenarios. My main concern was if it could be possible, so I guess i'll have to try adding diverse constraints within the validator. |
As far as I know, here the district boundaries are manipulated, while keeping the (almost) the same population in the new district designs. But I do not only aim to manipulate the boundaries, but also to get a new and unequal population (p.e with 2 districts moving from statu quo population to a 60-20).
There's any way to get an unequal population?
Thanks!
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