2nd August 2017, 12:09 PM
Gerrymandering also hurts local communities, since it means people who by any reasonable measure are outside that community can control the election in that community. Austin is a good example here.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)