The dirty little secret of American politics is:

LAWMAKERS GET TO PICK THE VOTERS BEFORE VOTERS PICK THEM!

When you vote for your congressperson or state legislator, somebody put you and your neighbors into a political district. Too often this process has been skewed to benefit one party or another, and district boundary lines make sense only from the point of view of career politicians. The good news is — the information revolution is transforming our democracy in a way that exposes all the tricks and mysteries of partisan gerrymandering.

Original cartoon of "The Gerry-Mander", this is the political cartoon that led to the coining of the term Gerrymander. The district depicted in the cartoon was created by Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists in 1812.

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