Gerrymandering

The US Census is conducted every (a)   years

Every decade, state governments redraw voting districts across the country to take into account population and migration changes over the preceding decade.

This process is called (a)   .

Many areas that are populated by people of color (African-Americans and Hispanics) tend to vote for candidates of which political party?

(a)  

What states cannot be gerrymandered?

(a)  

The two most common strategies of gerrymandering are _____________ & __________________.

(a)  

Racial gerrymandering is illegal.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Partisan gerrymandering is illegal.

• TRUE

• FALSE

_____________________ means putting as many of the opposing party’s supporters into as few districts as possible. Thus, that party wins big in those districts, but it doesn’t win many districts overall.

• Cracking

• Stacking

• Packing

• Fracking

• Racking

___________________ means scattering the rest of the opposing party’s supporters into districts where they have no chance of winning.

• Packing

• Stacking

• Racking

• Cracking

• Fracking

(a)   is when a political group tries to change a voting district to create a result that helps them or hurts the group who is against them.