Gerrymandering is when politicians draw voting maps to help themselves win more elections. Imagine you and your friend are dividing up a candy bar, but you get the bigger pieces every time, that’s like gerrymandering in action. Politicians can make the districts look weird so they have more people who support them and fewer people who oppose them.
Examples
- A city is split into parts to make sure only one party wins.
- Two similar neighborhoods are separated by a river just to create different districts.
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See also
- How Can a Single Vote Change the Whole Election?
- How Does Gerrymandering Really Warp Elections?
- How Does Gerrymandering: How politicians rig elections Work?
- How Does Gerrymandering Explained... With Pizza! Work?
- How Does a Pop Vote Really Work in an Election?
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