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Rucho v. Common Cause

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The History of Gerrymandering

The way gerrymandering works is by vote dilution, which is the devaluation of one citizen's vote as compared to others. They pack super majorities of voters of one party into a few districts and then they crack the rest of the voters by spreading them across many more districts that their candidates would not be able to win. And it's not like a coincidence that Republicans have been gerrymandered a lot, especially in the last decade or two in a way that's more aggressive than Democrats and all that. This was and is a concerted strategy.

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