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“In the US, we have a set of electoral and legislative institutions that drive us toward only having two parties,”
Mark Copelovitch told us.
“That allowed the 20 to 25 percent of people that support the far right to basically take over one of the two parties,
and everything in our system is weighted towards the Republican constituency
— the Supreme Court, the gerrymandered House, the way the Senate is apportioned.
All of these things basically bias the electo…

“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.

A Comparison of Precinct and District Voting Data Using Persistent Homology to Identify Gerrymandering in North Carolina
Ananya Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13997

A Comparison of Precinct and District Voting Data Using Persistent Homology to Identify Gerrymandering in North Carolina
We present an extension of Feng and Porter's 2019 paper on the use of the level-set method for the construction of a filtered simplicial complex from geospatial election data. Precincts are regarded to be too small to be gerrymandered, allowing us to identify discrepancies between precinct and district level voting data to quantify gerrymandering in the United States. Comparing the persistent homologies of Democratic voting areas on the precinct and district level shows when areas have been 'cr…