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Is Gerrymandering About to Become More Difficult?
A new approach in the way the Census aggregates its data could make it more difficult to do extreme gerrymandering, says Moon Duchin.
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Zack Stanton is digital editor of Politico Magazine.
The word “gerrymandering” prompts an image: district maps that look less like a tangible community than a Rorschach blot perhaps one that suggests a “broken-winged pterodactyl,” as one federal judge referred to Maryland’s 3rd district. Read a line like that, and a certain intuition kicks in: There must be something wrong here.
The problem is that our intuition isn’t necessarily correct.
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WKSU listener Beki McCurdy stands by the front steps of her Alliance home. McCurdy asked WKSU s OH Really? why it seems nothing has been done yet regarding two redistricting reforms Ohio voters approved in 2015 and 2018.
When Ohio legislators redrew the state’s congressional district map a decade ago, Stark County ended up split three ways among districts 7, 13, and 16.
That won’t happen again when new maps are redrawn this year under a new process that aims to prevent gerrymandering, where lawmakers carve district lines to protect partisan seats.
What comes next? You asked. We looked for answers in this week’s OH Really?