Today, the Supreme Court ruled that partisan gerrymanderng doesn't violate the constitution, meaning Republicans can continue to benefit from it. Here's how it works:
of redistricting is to ensure that every voter has an equal say by creating equal-population-size districts — but that’s not usually the end result. “It is unfortunately a process that oftentimes becomes politicized and an opportunity to try to manipulate the maps, rather than simply to draw fair maps,” Li says. And that’s where gerrymandering comes in.Broadly, gerrymandering is when one political party redraws the boundaries to give it an advantage over its opposition.
district boundaries so that voters for the opposing party are either dispersed throughout the state so they won’t make up a majority in any district, or packed together in a minimum number of districts and don’t have enough representation in other districts to win the majority of the state’s House seats., such as when legislators create districts that strategically group together supporters of sitting representatives to minimize competition.
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