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Let’s refresh our memories:

Let’s refresh our memories: . What is Redistricting? ? How is it related to the census? ? What is re-apportionment? ? How is it related to Gerrymandering? ?. How are House districts drawn?.

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Let’s refresh our memories:

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  1. Let’s refresh our memories: What is Redistricting?? How is it related to the census?? What is re-apportionment?? How is it related to Gerrymandering??

  2. How are House districts drawn?

  3. Gerrymandering is the drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party, group or incumbent. • Ways to Gerrymander: • Can “pack” a district with a large number of party voters (dilutes party’s strength in surrounding districts) • A district can be broken (“cracked”) into several districts (weakens party strength in several districts)

  4. What is the impact of “Packing”? • What is the impact of “Cracking”? • How does Gerrymandering relate to the wasted vote effect?

  5. Packing Example

  6. Cracking Example

  7. Packin’, Crackin’, Kidnapping, Highjacking

  8. Redistricting isn’t always easy as it looks.

  9. The Redistricting Game You will be working in pairs (One Dem & One Rep.) There are 5 missions. Please alternate missions, so that you are the “minority party” for a few rounds. Before you start the mission, make sure you have read the background info and summarized it in your packet.

  10. A Review of the Redistricting Game • What are the 3 fundamental concepts of redistricting? • What is a “partisan gerrymander”? • How is a bipartisan gerrymander different from the partisan gerrymander? Explain. • What new and different problems does it create? Explain. • What is the Voting Rights Act? What are its impacts on redistricting? • What reform efforts have been suggested? Explain.

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