The completely legal ways US politicians bend redistricting rules – a visual guide

This is why many politicians see redistricting as a way to rig the system in their favor

Political strategists have long known that they can manipulate the electoral redistricting process.

In 1991, Republican mapmaker Thomas Hofeller said: I define redistricting as the only legalized form of vote-stealing left in the United States today." In the following decades, he drew gerrymandered maps that gave Republicans electoral advantages across the country.