Hacker News Reader

Effective at what? One potential goal of gerrymandering is packing your opponents into as few districts as possible.

Which is ultimately the problem with algorithmic approaches; "fair" isn't an objective measure.

I'm warming up to the idea of voter efficiency.

And the various form of elections are absolutely more or less fair, eg FPTP vs Approval Voting.

Efficiency gap is a decent objective metric of fairness.

It's not an algorithm for drawing districts though, it's a score computed for a given plan.

And it depends on selecting binary sides. How do you objectively deal with a popular moderate?