Your Vote Doesn't Matter
September, 2006
Redistricting---better known as gerrymandering---has in recent years been honed to such an art that one of the basic tenets of democracy no longer holds. Voters are supposed to be able to choose their representatives; instead, politicians these days choose their voters. Of course, gerrymandering---named after Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry, who redrew state districts for the 1812 election---is nothing new. Districts are redrawn at least every 10 years, after each census. But until the 199...
