Redistricting using Blockchain Network

Abstract

Trust in the integrity of processes for congressional redistricting is crucial for the smooth functioning of democracies. Achieving universal consensus on the fairness and unbiasedness of plans is essential. We propose a novel framework of redistricting to enhance public participation in a redistricting process and bolster transparency in the process outcome. This framework is designed to support submitting a redistricting problem in a blockchain network, submit any number of districting plan for a redistricting problem, and evaluating the plans in the network. Moreover, the framework facilitate to choose the "best" of any number of independent redistricting plans, based on agreed-upon metrics like isoperimetric ratio, area moment, population moment, of the proposed districts, among others.