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drawing district lines so politicians pick their voters instead of the other way around.
means the practice of manipulating electoral boundaries to give one party an unfair advantage in elections.
from coined in 1812 after massachusetts governor elbridge gerry signed off on a salamander-shaped district; a newspaper cartoonist fused his name with the creature and it stuck.
gerry's pronunciationhe actually said it with a hard g
packing and crackingtwo core tactics, concentrate or dilute opposition voters
supreme court punt2019 ruling left partisan maps to states, not courts
software eraalgorithms now draw districts down to the block