  Why not have a computer just draw a map? This is something you hear a lot
when people talk about gerrymandering, and it's easy to think at first that
this could solve redistricting altogether. But there are more than a couple
problems with this idea. In this chapter, two computer scientists survey what's
been done in algorithmic redistricting, discuss what doesn't work and highlight
approaches that show promise. This preprint was prepared as a chapter in the
forthcoming edited volume Political Geometry, an interdisciplinary collection
of essays on redistricting. (https://mggg.org/gerrybook)
