EG Weighting Districts

Abstract

This past decade has seen a noticeable uptick in asymmetric election results along with the inevitable claims of gerrymandering and litigation. Research, too, has followed, giving rise to intense scrutiny of elections, where the goal is to understand not only what goes into gerrymandering, but how to measure what comes out. Perhaps the most cited symmetry measure of this decade is the EG. The EG has been commonplace in gerrymandering litigation nationwide and the focus of numerous articles, both popular and scholarly. This article shows how the EG can be represented as a weighting function. This is not the full WDM article though it shows up in Google searches. For the full WDM article, please see https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3308888