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How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering

“Until recently, gerrymandered districts tended to stick out, identifiable by their contorted tendrils. This is no longer the case,” Quanta Magazine reports. Said mathematician Beth Malmskog: “With modern technology, you can gerrymander pretty effectively without making your shapes very weird.” “This makes it that much harder to figure out whether a map has been unfairly manipulated.”

 

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