Consider the second map, drawn by advocates for the Nationalist Party, which only a minority of Freedonians support. It's possible to draw a map where the Nationalist Party wins elections for a large majority of the seats in the legislature. (If you haven't yet drawn such a map, do so now.) This map is designed to waste as many Popular Front votes as possible, so it will have a large efficiency gap favoring the Nationalist Party.> While maintaining the maximum legislative majority in favor of the Nationalist Party, determine the minimum possible efficiency gap.What’s the smallest efficiency gap you can produce?Draw such a map.> While keeping the efficiency gap under 7%--the standard that the Supreme Court rejected as a measure of partisan gerrymandering--determine the maximum number of legislative seats that the Nationalist Party can win.Compare this number with the number of seats you'd expect the Nationalist Party to win based strictly on their proportion of voters in Freedonia.
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