Computational Social Choice 2020

Gerrymandering Attempts with Uncertain Voters

MBWhitestone, csirika & stefanklut

This repository contains the source code for an investigation on the impact of swing voters in two-party gerrymandering.

Files

• astar.py: code for the heuristic search algorithm
• gerrymander.py: classes implementing the gerrymander model
• LICENSE: our code is available under the MIT license
• readme.md: this file containing a readme of the repository
• results_0D.txt: results for the 0-dimensional model
• results_1D.txt: results for the 1-dimensional model
• results_2D.txt: results for the 2-dimensional model

Requirements

For running the code you need a working version of Python3 with the numpy and tqdm libraries.