After discussing gerrymandering a bit last class and reading about it in Davidson and Connelly, I was interested in how exactly gerrymadered districts were mapped. I found this video from the Atlantic that talks about the actual process of gerrymandering. Particularly, it talks about the calculation of preferences and predictions of votes that leads to the manipulated district bounds. Here it is, for anyone else who is interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=kBIz6SB_JLc
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