How does gerrymandering work? How does drawing new maps in a state to say these over here are repubs and the over here are dems? How does it matter when it just goes to the state vote?
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This is basically an issue only if you live in a two-party winner-takes-all country. By redrawing the maps you ensure that in most districts your preferred party wins.
Most countries do not function like this.
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