Quotes by Charles Cottrell

“Charles Dickens once advised, ‘Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many”

“David Cottrell compared the competitiveness of simulated plans with the actual plans for the 113rd Congress. He found that the plans adopted resulted in districts about 3 percentage points safer than did the simulations that relied on algorithms that consider equalizing populations, contiguity, and compactness but not partisanship or incumbency.””

“commissioners. Generally, however, Chen and Cottrell found less bias in plans prepared by commissions than when a party with a trifecta had control.131””