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The shittiest thing is that they're not actually good at it. We generally use compactness as a proxy for a gerrymandered district. However, you can effectively gerrymander using extremely compact districts. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo44
This is terrifying, and a strong reason to move to multimember districting.
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