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Friday, January 29, 2016

Gerry-Rigging: Manipulating the Outcome

A trick old as dirt.

From Wired -

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA spent the last chunk of his 2016 State of the Union Address talking about how to “fix our politics.” His first solution? Stop gerrymandering, the shaping of congressional districts to guarantee electoral outcomes. “We have to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters, and not the other way around,” he said.

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/gerrymandering-is-even-more-infuriating-when-you-can-actually-see-it/?mbid=nl_12816

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