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One Way To Spot A Partisan Gerrymander

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One Way To Spot A Partisan Gerrymander
On March 26, challengers to North Carolina’s congressional map will argue before the Supreme Court that it is a partisan gerrymander — that is, the district boundaries were drawn to benefit one political party, the GOP, in a way that violates the Constitution. The challengers are using a variety of quantitative tools to make their argument, including a metric called “partisan bias” that tries to evaluate how skewed a map is by looking at the number of seats a party would have won in a hypothetical election in which the vote was evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. Here’s how that metric works and what it says about congressional maps going back a few decades.
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Without hyperbole, this may be one of the most important issues faced in our democracy.
 
NWRatCon said:
One Way To Spot A Partisan GerrymanderWithout hyperbole, this may be one of the most important issues faced in our democracy.
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This should be a non partisan issue as well. We, the People, the voters should choose our representatives. It’s shouldn’t be the representatives choose the voters.

Gerrymandering is done by both sides.

It needs to end.
 
Another way to look at the effect of gerrymandering is to consider the number of votes which are, essentially, made meaningless by the process. It's a dual process. Given a gerrymandered 'safe' voting district, many of the majority votes are unneeded and thus of no consequence. The same can be said for the intentionally minoritized voters in toto. The total percent of such votes can serve as an index.
 
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