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toocoolforthebaroque t1_iuii9qq wrote

Reply to comment by eloel- in eli5 What is gerrymandering? by Robert-Connorson

This is a great explanation!

Just to add to it: gerrymandering can be done for a certain political advantage, as well as boosting any group. Racial gerrymandering, minority-language group gerrymandering, and rural/urban gerrymandering are still too-common examples.

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eloel- t1_iuij08s wrote

Of course, good point! We indeed also try to answer questions like "if you have 10 people, split 6/4 or 7/3, how do you elect 2 representatives?", which are much harder to intuit an answer from compared to the case I described. No matter which way you swing that, you can't split equitably so you start finding other reasonable splits.

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