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Gerrymandering

TODO: How is it measured? Can we know? Are the metrics good? What countries don’t have much of this? Is this strictly a US problem?

Gerrymandering is drawing boundaries of an electoral map to favor one political party. Usually this mean stacking a party’s member into one county and spreading our your own votes so as to win by bare margins. Although a party might have less popular votes, it is able to win a majority of the seats through manipulative maps.

TODO: Include maps here of gerrymandering.

Metrics

How do we measure whether a state is gerrymandering?

Rather than just vibes of looking at a map, we need some mathematical way to tell if a county map is manipulated as to be unfair.

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