1. How will the efficiency gap described above help future politicians end the negative impact of
gerrymandering? Explain.
2. The term comes from Elbridge Gerry, a Massachusetts governor who helped draw the
boundaries of a congressional district so misshapen and blatantly one-sided that one critic
said the map looked like a salamander (lizard). "No," another replied, "a gerrymander.”
What danger might these oddly shaped districts pose that might make the cartoonist see
them as monsters?
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