News Articles:
The (very) tricky math of detecting gerrymandering in election districts (Guest post on Devlin's Angle)
Newly gerrymandered districts might hurt Democrats less than you think (Published in the Washington Post)
The Silver Lining in the Supreme Court Gerrymandering Decision (Published in The Hill)
News Citations:
Speaker Johnson’s Partisan Spin on Gerrymandering in the 2024 Election (Published in FactCheck.org)
Research Programs:
Fall of 2023, I was a Research Member at the MSRI/SLMath Algorithms, Fairness, and Equity Program
Research Articles:
Don't Trust A Single Gerrymandering Metric with T. Ratliff and S. Somersille (in review)
Bounds and Bugs: The Limits of Symmetry Metrics to Detect Partisan Gerrymandering with D. DeFord (in review)
Perfect Hierarchical Matchings in Graphs with S. Jacobson and I. Ludden (in review)
The Geography and Election Outcome (GEO) Metric: An Introduction with M. Campisi, T. Ratliff, and S. Somersille Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2022)
Declination as a Metric to Detect Partisan Gerrymandering with M. Campisi, A. Padilla, and T. Ratliff Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2019)
The Efficiency Gap, Voter Turnout, and The Efficiency Principle Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2018)
Data Cleaning:
USF graduate students Ananya Agarwal, Alusi, Arbie Hsu, Arif Syraj, and I have cleaned and coalesced data for post-2020-Census maps. See our paper for details (it will be published in The Mathematics Enthusiast); the maps can be found at https://github.com/eveomett-states
Teaching:
Spring 2025 I am teaching AI for Redistricting.
I taught Math in our Democracy: Detecting and Preventing Gerrymandering three times during "Jan term" (Januaries of 2020, 2021, and 2022)
Sites and Resources for those interested in exploring:
The Gerrymandering Project from 538; for general public consumption.
Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group; headed by Moon Duchin from Tufts
Quantifying Gerrymandering; the math group from Duke.
Wesley Pegden and others at Carnegie Melon have worked on addressing gerrymandering
All About Redistricting; Justin Levitt of Loyola Law's guide to the redistricting process
Wendy Cho has been influential in this area
Representable is interested in helping communities of interest in the redistricting process
Districtr and Open Precincts want to help the public have the tools we need to analyze districting maps
Dave's redistricting app can be used to create maps