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starroute

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2. When you're trying to bring court cases, nothing is obvious
Mon Apr 18, 2016, 04:16 PM
Apr 2016

There are also relatively benign reasons for a modest amount of gerrymandering, such as lumping minority voters together in a single district to give them representation of their own. So it's only when the funny-looking districts overwhelmingly favor one party over the other that you can say the state as a whole has been gerrymandered.

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