The Influence of Region of Interest Heterogeneity on Classification Accuracy in Wetland Systems by Tedros M. Berhane, Hugo Costa, Charles R. Lane, Oleg A. Anenkhonov, Victor V. Chepinoga, Bradley C. Autrey

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17.263 / 17.264 U.S. National Elections, Fall 2012 by Caughey, Devin

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Redistricting and the U.S. House of Representatives : illuminating electoral bias with the Brookes Method by Hill, Tony L.

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Seed-Fill-Shift-Repair: A redistricting heuristic for civic deliberation. by Christian Haas, Lee Hachadoorian, Steven O Kimbrough, Peter Miller, Frederic Murphy

“…Gerrymandering is especially vexing in the United States. …”
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A Multi-Criteria Pen for Drawing Fair Districts: When Democratic and Demographic Fairness Matter by Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda, Camilo Campos-Valdés, Maurcio Morales Quiroga, Matías Moreno-Faguett, Jordi Pereira

“…Electoral systems are modified by individuals who have incentives to bias the rules for their political advantage (i.e., gerrymandering). To prevent gerrymandering, legislative institutions can rely on mathematical tools to guarantee democratic fairness and territorial contiguity. …”
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Seed-Fill-Shift-Repair: A redistricting heuristic for civic deliberation by Christian Haas, Lee Hachadoorian, Steven O. Kimbrough, Peter Miller, Frederic Murphy, Baogui Xin

“…Gerrymandering is especially vexing in the United States. …”
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From votes to seats: The operation of the UK electoral system since 1945 by Johnston, R, Pattie, C, Dorling, D, Rossiter, D

“…This situation came about because of different aspects of two well-known electoral abuses - malapportionment and gerrymandering. With the use of imaginative diagrams the book examines these processes in detail, illustrating how they operate and stresses the important role of tactical voting in the production of recent election results.…”

GEOGRAPHY OF THE NEW ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND CHANGING VOTING PATTERNS IN HUNGARY by Zoltán Kovács, György Vida

“…Based on the results of the 2014 Hungarian parliamentary elections the paper also explores the geographical bias of the new Hungarian electoral system with special attention to malapportionment and partisan gerrymandering.…”
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A Computational Approach to Measuring Vote Elasticity and Competitiveness by DeFord, Daryl, Duchin, Moon, Solomon, Justin

“…The recent wave of attention to partisan gerrymandering has come with a push to refine or replace the laws that govern political redistricting around the country. …”
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Ensuring generalized fairness in batch classification by Manjish Pal, Subham Pokhriyal, Sandipan Sikdar, Niloy Ganguly

“…To further demonstrate the generalizability of our framework, we deploy it to the problem of fair gerrymandering where it achieves a better fairness-accuracy trade-off than the existing baseline method.…”
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Political rights: A shift or 'detour' in nationalism presence among Malaysia and Japan's youth by Ahmad, N.S.Y.

“…The EC are also being accused of practicing gerrymandering in order to ensure that BN will retain the necessary number of seats to form the government. …”
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Democratic process in Malaysia: the future of Malaysia electoral system by Ayub, Zainal Amin, Mohamed Yusoff, Zuryati, Yeon, Asmah Laili

“…However, most of the respondents also incline to the view that Malaysia should change to proportionate representative in the future; because of the advantages of PR electoral system, where, among others are, ‘every vote counts’ and it reduces the gerrymandering issue. It is also found that many countries tried to change its electoral system, but only New Zealand is the best model to look into. …”
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Democratic Process in Malaysia: the Future of Malaysian Electoral System by Ayub, Zainal Amin, Mohamed Yusoff, Zuryati, Yeon, Asmah Laili

“…However, most of the respondents also incline to the view that Malaysia should change to proportionate representative in the future; because of the advantages of PR electoral system, where, among others are, ‘every vote counts’ and it reduces the gerrymandering issue. It is also found that many countries tried to change its electoral system, but only New Zealand is the best model to look into. …”
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Pola persempadanan dan analisis ruangan Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Sabah, 1994 dan 2004 by Fadilah Sarbi

“…Elemen etnik pula memalnkan peranan yang sangat penting di negeri Sabah terutamanya dalam pembentukan persempadanan sarna seperti yang diterapkan melalui Racial Gerrymandering iaitu terdapat beberapa ruangan dalam keseluruhan DUN dibina atas tujuan melindungi dan menjaga etnik yang ada.…”
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Party positions and the seats/votes relationship with ideological voters by Leblanc, William Michael

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Persempadanan semula kawasan pilihan raya 2003 dan impaknya kepada pilihan raya umum (pru) 2008 di kawasan Dewan Undangan Negeri (dun) Kajang dan Bangi, selangor by Junaidi Awang Besar, Mohd Fuad Mat Jali, Rosmadi Fauzi, Amer Saifude Ghazali

“…Namun demikian, setelah persempadanan semula tersebut dibuat dan diluluskan, terdapat unsur-unsur yang dilihat menguntungkan pemerintah dalam usaha bagi mengukuhkan strategi bagi mengekalkan kuasa/geopolitik yang disebut sebagai gerrymandering. Justeru dalam artikel ini, secara mikronya kawasan pilihan raya Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Kajang dan Bangi dipilih sebagai kawasan kajian untuk mengenalpasti kesan persempadanan semula kawasan pilihan raya 2003 terhadap pilihan raya umum. …”
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Open, Online and Global: Benefits of BioMedical Journals Going Online and Open by Vinod Scaria

“…'Open Access' means immediate, permanent, toll-free, non-gerrymandered, online access to the full-text. Open Access can be considered as borne on three major pillars of Open Access Publishing, Open Access Archiving and Open Access Support and Open Access publishing is perhaps the future of scientific communication…”
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