Gerrymandering is the process of drawing districts with an unnatural shape or composition to achieve a specific political outcome.
What is Gerrymandering?
- Following the census, states redistrict their congressional and legislative districts every ten years. Redistricting, which is necessary to ensure that districts are evenly populated, adhere to laws like the Voting Rights Act, and are otherwise representative of a state's population, is essential to our democracy because communities change. When done correctly, redistricting offers the opportunity to produce maps that, in the words of John Adams, are "an exact portrait, a miniature," of the population as a whole.
- However, occasionally this method is used to create election results that are manufactured and unrelated to voter preferences by creating maps that place a thumb on the scale. Gerrymandering allows politicians to select their constituents rather than the electorate selecting their representatives.
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