Eli5 gerrymandering and how it works so successfully?
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Imaging your preschool class is voting on which cartoon to watch: Zootopia or Coco. 8 kids want to watch Zootopia and 13 want to watch Coco. Should mean Coco wins right?
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Well the Zootopia kids decide that instead of direct democracy, the class should be divided into groups, and each group should vote, and whichever movie wins the most groups is picked. Coco kids think this sounds ok and go with it.
So the Zootopia kids put 7 Coco kids in one group, and split the remaining six in two other groups. Then they spread their own forces between these groups.
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Coco wins one group, Zootopia wins two. When the Coco kids point out this isn’t fair, Zootopia kids say “tHiS Is A rEpUbLiC nOt A dEmOcRaCy” and invite them to cry harder.
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