Gerrymandering is Government Corruption
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“It looked like a salamander.”
That’s how a Boston newspaper described the twisted shape of a new voting district in 1812. Governor Elbridge Gerry had signed off on a redistricting plan so blatantly engineered to keep his party in power that one district coiled across the map like a mythological beast.
The salamander has a history in mythology far differe…