Partisan gerrymandering with geographically compact districts
  Bizarrely shaped voting districts are frequently lambasted as likely
instances of gerrymandering. In order to systematically identify such
instances, researchers have devised several tests for so-called geographic
compactness (i.e., shape niceness). We demonstrate that under certain
conditions, a party can gerrymander a competitive state into geographically
compact districts to win an average of over 70% of the districts. Our results
suggest that geometric features alone may fail to adequately combat partisan
gerrymandering.
