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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
[[Category:Problems]][[Gerrymandering]] is the practice of redrawing political boundaries in order to gain electoral advantage. The usual strategy is to draw the lines such that voters likely to oppose one's own party are all grouped together in as few districts as possible, while the voters who are likely to support that party are spread across as many districts as possible – so as to carry as many districts as possible in that party's favor – while still remaining a majority in each such district. | [[Category:Problems]][[Gerrymandering]] is the practice of redrawing political boundaries in order to gain electoral advantage. The usual strategy is to draw the lines such that voters likely to oppose one's own party are all grouped together in as few districts as possible, while the voters who are likely to support that party are spread across as many districts as possible – so as to carry as many districts as possible in that party's favor – while still remaining a majority in each such district. | ||
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==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||
| − | Imagine if Pepsi and Coke had arranged to divide up the cola market into tidy little local geographic monopolies, where each could charge whatever they liked for colored sugar water... while claiming that their nearly 50:50 ''overall'' split means | + | Imagine if Pepsi and Coke had arranged to divide up the cola market into tidy little local geographic monopolies, where each could charge whatever they liked for colored sugar water... while claiming that their nearly 50:50 ''overall'' split means ! Hell, they could even do this while ''hating each guts'', the same way that democrats and republicans now do. - [[David Brin]], [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/08/despair-amid-signs-of-hope.html Contrary Brin 2006-08-07] |
==Reference== | ==Reference== | ||
*[[wikipedia:Gerrymandering|Wikipedia]] | *[[wikipedia:Gerrymandering|Wikipedia]] | ||