Quote Originally Posted by frugal-one View Post
On the show they showed how gerrymandering works. It is not something I can explain.
You are not alone.

Scientists at MIT (and other major think tanks) address the problem with computational redistricting tools. Members of the Supreme Court famously were not able to wrap their heads around the algorithmic analysis put in front of them in 2017.

In my Democratic controlled city, my neighborhood held its breath every ten years to see if we would be split up among aldermanic wards. We hated being split, and for most decades we were. It was always so weired to have to work with one Alderman for the community garden, and another one for the Park just a block away.