[EL] Gerrymandering quiz

[Justin Levitt]

If you want to go beyond Louisiana, the Brennan Center put out this quiz 
<http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/Democracy/14%20Dont%20Judge%20a%20Book%20By%20Its%20Cover.pdf> 
years ago (and updated on the eve of redistricting in 2010).

Pretty districts can serve awful purposes, and ugly districts can serve 
wonderful purposes.  If you want to know whether a district is good or 
bad, you have to know what it's trying to achieve, not whether you'd 
want its "face" on a poster.  Or, in a comparison I'm fond of making, 
gauging whether a district is good or bad based on its outline alone is 
much like gauging whether a singer's voice is good or bad based only on 
how she looks <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS5Om47vsaA>.

-- 
Justin Levitt
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On 5/27/2014 9:36 PM, Rick Hasen wrote:
>
>
>     "Take this quiz and see if you can pick the 'gerrymandered'
>     redistricting plan" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61801>
>
> Posted on May 27, 2014 4:57 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61801>by 
> Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> This is fun 
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/05/27/take-this-quiz-and-see-if-you-can-pick-the-gerrymandered-redistricting-plan/> 
> from The Monkey Cage.
>
> To mangle Justice O'Conno 
> <http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-357.ZO.htm>r, "Put 
> differently, we believe that reapportionment is one area in which 
> appearances [shouldn't] matter."
>
>

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