Article 5S2EW This is what gerrymandering looks like | The fight to vote

This is what gerrymandering looks like | The fight to vote

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Sam Levine
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We zoomed in on four districts that provide some of the clearest examples of how US politicians are locking in election results for the next decade

Hello, and Happy Thursday,

A few months ago, I sat down with my colleagues Alvin Chang and Andrew Witherspoon on the Guardian's visual team asked to do something that I thought would be exceedingly difficult: could we show what gerrymandering looks like to our readers?

Ohio Republicans were so secretive in drawing new gerrymandered state legislative maps that they shut out members of their own party. Now, they're pushing ahead with drawing a gerrymandered congressional map.

Georgia Republicans unveiled a new congressional map that heavily favors the GOP.

Civil rights groups have filed a challenge to Texas's new electoral maps.

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