I knew Madison County sounded familiar. It's the c

I knew Madison County sounded familiar. It's the county in which my alma mater sits. Coincidentally, the state requires counties to readjust their weighted voting systems periodically. A professor from my school, who started teaching during my last two years, was hired to do the computer study for the reapportionment.


RESOLUTION NO. 252-12
AUTHORIZING AGREEMENT FOR COMPUTER VOTING ANALYSIS
WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States has determined that the United States Constitution requires that the apportionment of legislative bodies be based on the principle of equality of representation; and
WHEREAS, the Courts of the State of New York have determined that this mandate of the Supreme Court of United States applies with full force and effect to the apportionment of county legislative bodies; and
WHEREAS, the Madison County Board of Supervisors must from time to time be reapportioned in accordance with accepted judicial and statutory standards to the “one man-one vote” principle; and
WHEREAS, to ascertain the appropriate formula for reapportionment, it is required that the counties be able to show, through computer analysis, that a supervisor’s share of the power, calculated according to the “Banzhaf” formula, is proportional to the supervisor’s units share of the population; and
WHEREAS, Christopher H. Nevison, Professor of Computer Science at Colgate University, has special expertise in connection with such analysis and is prepared to devise and undertake the appropriate computer program to compute the Banzhaf measures for the Madison County weighted voting system;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Chairman of this Board of Supervisors be and is hereby authorized and directed to enter into an agreement with Christopher H. Nevison to compute the Banzhaf measures for the Madison County weighted voting system; a copy of such agreement being on file with the Clerk of this Board; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED; the cost of this agreement will be $1,500.00, which will be taken from the Madison County Supervisors Budget Account: A1010.42751.
ADOPTED: AYES – 947 NAYS – 285 (Becker) ABSENT – 268 (Cary, DiVeronica, Ball)

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