Communication 09 How To draw Redistricting Plans That Will Stand Up In Court

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2.Gerrymandering It is a fact of life in redistricting that the district lines ar majority in power, and that the majority will always be tempted to enhance their prospects for victory at the next election. Th to describe any technique by which a political party attempts to redistricting. Used in its narrow sense, to refer only to the practice of drawi that look like monsters, there are basically just two techniques they work? a.Packing Packing is drawing district boundary lines so that the members concentrated, or packed, into as few districts as possible. T packed districts70, 80, or 90 percent. They can elect represent votes in excess of a simple majority are wasted. They are not representatives in other districts, so they cannot elect represe in the state as a whole. b.Fracturing Fracturing is drawing district lines so that the minority popu of the minority are spread among as many districts as possible, district, rather than permitting them to concentrate their stren some districts. c.Creating a Gerrymander If the supporters of the minority party were distributed evenly would be no need to gerrymander. In a state where the minority they would lose every seat. But political minorities tend not to be evenly distributed. In as majorities do. So the persons drawing the redistricting plan draw their districts accordingly: first packing as many of the possible and then, where they cant be packed, fracturing them i It is this process of drawing the district lines to first pack a creates the dragon-like districts called gerrymanders. In drawing districts after the 2010 census, you may find there i than in the past. Both Republicans and Democrats have been packi of housing trends over the last three decades shows that America 5