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How to rig the elections, the legal way by the week staff      


In this paper, one of the main terms used was gerrymandering. This means to manipulate the boundaries of an electoral  constituency to favor one group or party. This is not a good thing to do because it singles out a majority of one of the parties, so that on certain party will win the election. This allows for politics to choose their voters, instead of voters choosing their politicians. This makes me uneasy about the voting process because you wont know if the elections for your electoral college were "rigged" or not. I think this should be illegal i all cases, instead of certain ones. This is definable a problem that needs to be solved, but there are few, right ways, this issue could be solved by. One way to keep the voting honest, is to have a couple reliable sources to check the census drawn before the district lines are redrawn. If this issue is solved, the votes for each candidate will more more accurate to what the voters actually want. Even though people want this issue to be solved, it is difficult. This is difficult because most politicians will ignore the fact. Also, most attempts to change this, cause a never ending court battle since people fight the fact that it is not technically illegal.

Even though it is difficult situation, there are solutions; such as, using computer data bases to redistrict areas as evenly and fairly as possible. This will make the majority of the voters happy, but may upset the politicians who were using this loophole to their advantage. In one of the paragraphs, In that way?, which is about the fact that even though gerrymandering was used, in most situations, it would still be the same but only with a smaller majority. This is surprising because you think they must know they were losing the election, but instead it is like a security blanket.