One number of redrawing electoral districts to endeavour to mash all the voters of i political political party into i district is that you lot terminate upwards amongst to a greater extent than or less real oddly shaped districts. Back inward 2014 the Washington Post mapped The New Pennsylvania House Districts Are In. We Review the Mapmakers’ Choices. Yesterday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a novel congressional map to supersede the i gerrymandered past times Pennsylvania Republicans.
The Time's article includes a serial of maps which let you lot to compare the Republican gerrymandered districts amongst the Supreme Court's redrawn districts. When switching betwixt the 2 maps for each district you lot tin hold off out for irregular shapes where boundary lines are snaking out to capture neighborhoods that don't seem to endure a natural fit. The Supreme Court's district maps practise seem to endure much to a greater extent than compact than those drawn past times the Republicans. The Supreme Court maps don't bring equally many "squiggles too offshoots too tentacle-looking protuberances" that are mutual to gerrymandered electoral districts.
The Washington Post map of America's near gerrymandered districts gives the sometime Pennsylvania congressional districts gerrymander scores generally inward the 80's & 90's. Scores that betoken the districts bring been highly gerrymandered to favor i political political party over another. The fact that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has redrawn a much fairer map doesn't appear to endure real skillful intelligence for the Republicans. However nosotros volition bring to hold off until the elections afterwards this twelvemonth to encounter which political party actually wins inward each novel Pennsylvania district.
