GERRYMANDERIN

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Indiana- Jerry- John- Marian

By:
Indiana Xu
Jerry Huang
John Chen
Marian Castro
 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN THE
US

39,560,000

VS
Every US state has a different 737,438
population number
 53 districts
+ 2 senators

= 55
ELECTORS

More population = more

districts
 WHAT IS GERRYMANDERING?
Redrawing districts lines to give advantage to one party over the other
HOW DOES IT WORK?

• 66% = blue group

• 33% = purple group

• Fairest way to arrange the

districts
HOW DOES IT WORK?

Gerrymandered districts:

• 100% of the votes will

support the blue group
HOW DOES IT WORK?

Gerrymandered districts:

• 50% of the votes will

support the purple
group.

• 50% of the votes will

support the blue group.
 PACKING AND
CRACKING
Packing Cracking
Usually when a party has Usually when a party has
more opponents more supporters
 WHY IS IT CALLED
GERRYMANDERING?
1812

Gerry +
Salamander =
GERRYMANDERIN

Massachusetts
Elbridge Gerry
CAUSATIONS
LACK OF LAWS AGAINST IT

 Ruling of the U.S. supreme court

 Voting Rights Act of 1965
 New laws regulating districts are hard to
be passed
 POLITICAL
PARTIES
The process of drawing political boundar
may be interfered

GROWTH OF TECHNOLOGY
The Age of Big Data is coming…
 IMPACT

Physical impact: many boundaries of districts has

changed their shape to some zig zag pattern for no
reason at all

Political impact: Gerrymandering reduces the number of

competitive congressional races across the United
States by segregating like-minded voters from each
other.
 HARMFUL EFFECTS

 -disproportionate politicians

 -creates alike district of voters

socioeconomically, racially or politically.
( monopoly the congress and avoid challengers)

 -No reason to compromise to the other party.

(because of majority)
 HARMFUL EFFECTS

North Carolina 2016 elections

Gerrymandered favoring Republicans

Democrats and Republicans voters are similar in

numbers
 CONTROVERSY IN US
ELECTIONS

Minorities can benefit from packing

Racist Gerrymandering
CONTROVERSY IN US
ELECTIONS

More campaigns means more

money
 “Our conclusion does not
condone excessive partisan
gerrymandering. Nor does our
conclusion condemn
complaints about districting
to echo into a void”
 TOPIC- SPECIFIC WORDS
Redistricting: The action or process of dividing or organizing an area into new
political or school districts.

Cracking: refers to diluting the voting power of opposition voters across many
districts by redrawing congressional boundaries.

Packing: concentrating the opposing party's voting power in one district to

reduce their voting power in other districts.

Veto: the right to refuse to allow something to be done, especially the right to
stop a law from being passed or a decision from being taken.

Polarization: the act of separating or making people separate into two groups
with completely opposite opinions.