Inclass Files - Math 217 Voting Theory - Spring 2012

• January 25
  Semester Overview

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• February 8
  Penrose measures of regions on the simplex

• February 15
  Spreadsheet for calculating equitability and mean majority deficit in a two-tier system

• February 20
  Overview of methods of apportionment
  Spreadsheet for example apportionments based on 1790 and 1820 U.S. censuses
  Spreadsheet for in-class worksheet

• February 22
  Spreadsheet for apportionment paradoxes and Dean's method

• February 27
  Spreadsheet demonstrating Hill's method for apportionment

• February 29
  Recap of apportionment

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• March 7
  Overview of South African voting system
  Spreadsheet with some calculations for 2004 South Africa elections

• March 19
  The Redistricting Song at ProPublica
  Redistricting the Nation
  The Redistricting Game from the Annenberg Center at USC
  "Measuring compactness and the role of a competent standard in a test for partisan and racial gerrymandering" from Journal of Politics is publication number 66 at Bernie Grofman's list of publications

• March 21
  Exercises
  Blank triangles for your computing pleasure

• March 26
  1992 U.S. Presidential Election

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• April 2
  Fundamental decomposition of R⁶

• April 9
  Decomposing profiles with three candidates

• April 11
  1860 Presidential Election and Saari's results on dropping candidates
  Maple worksheet showing the outcomes of the 1860 election using different weighted voting methods

• April 23
  FairVote.org
  RangeVoting.org