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Why Cities Have More People but Less Clout Cities have always gotten less than their share from states. As they've become wealthier and more Democratic, they've come increasingly under attack. Alan Greenblatt, Senior Staff Writer   |   February 19, 2021   |  Analysis Gun violence is on the rise in Philadelphia. In January, homicides jumped by a third over the same month in 2020, which itself had been the deadliest in three decades. Non-fatal shootings increased last month by 71 percent. City officials, wanting to address the issue, have r...

Minimal racial gerrymandering (maximal voting power equality) So essentially the goal of the software is to eliminate gerrymandering by fully automating the redistricting process. It replaces the manual drawing process with automated search and analysis. How it works To find the number one best map, one would have to search through and evaluate every possible map. This is not computationally feasible. So instead, a heuristic search algorithm is used to evaluate only those maps that are probably good. Initialize. First, the population of potential maps is initialized. It ...

The United States' political decay has continued at a startling pace. And the system is still too rigid to reform itself.