Instead of competing for votes, political actors redraw district lines to choose their voters.
Gerrymandering exists for one simple reason:
Power without persuasion.
It’s done through two primary methods:
Packing: Concentrating opposing voters into a small number of districts.
Cracking: Splitting opposing voters across multiple districts to dilute their influence
Both methods produce the same result: elections that are technically legal. Outcomes that are strategically engineered.
No fraud required. Just geometry.
And once maps are locked in, they can shape outcomes for an entire decade.
The maps don’t win elections. It pre-decides them.
Gerrymandering decides where votes matter.
Citizens United helps decide how much influence money has over those outcomes.
One shapes the map. The other floods the system.
