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December 2020 - Solution

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December 2020 Challenge


One possible solution is
P = [101, 101, 115, 125, 125]
V = [50, 50, 57, 125 125]

A solution to the bonus question requires some source of USA voter data; there isn't one canonical source, so multiple answers were accepted. One answer by Florian Fischer used http://www.electproject.org/2020g and gave the result 77.92%, which is typical; the answers mostly range between 77-79%.