Gerrymandering
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- huh?
- gerrymandering
- what is that??
- Hi class! Today we will be learning about gerrymandering
- wow!
- Gerrymandering is when a political group tries to change a voting district to create a result that helps them or hurts the group who is against them
- interesting!
- Gerrymandering works by wasting votes. It puts more votes of winners into the district they will win so the losers win in another district.
- Packing is concentrating the opposing party's voting power in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts
- cracking is diluting the voting power of the opposing party's supporters across many districts
- Does anyone know what cracking and packing a district is?
- Is gerrymandering legal?
- Redistricting: to set up new district lines after reapportionment is completeReapportionment: the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census
- Adding on, a census is taken every ten years.
- Miller v. Johnson & Gill v. WhitfordFederal courts have deemed extreme cases of garrymandering to be unconstitutional but have struggled with how to define the types of gerrymandering and the standard that should be used to determine which redistricting maps are unconstitutional.
- We learned about gerrymandering!
- Hey! Guess what we learned in class today!
- OMG! I've heard about that! Wait can you give me an example?
- Hi! What did you learn!?
- Yes! The supreme court decided that you cannot draw congressional districts that distnguish based off of anyones race, it is unconstitutional.
- Sure! We learned about a court case Miller v. Johnson!
- Woah! Thats very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
- Oh yeah! The gerrymandering based on race right?
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