Gerrymandering has been around since the very beginning of America.
__X_ True*
___ False
The U.S. Supreme Court has said gerrymandering reform is not an issue for the courts to decide.
_X__ True**
____ False
By law, states must redraw their congressional map every four years.
___ True
_X__ False***
The “Snake on the Lake” refers to Ohio’s ______
_X__ 9th Congressional District****
___ 1st Congressional District
___ 2nd Congressional District
___ 4th Congressional District
___ A rollercoaster ride at Cedar Point.
A popular way to measure the impact of gerrymandering is called _____
__X__ an efficiency gap*****
____ voter turnout
____ the disengagement factor
____ partisan skewing
*Our Founding Fathers gave state legislatures the right to draw congressional district lines without political restrictions.
**The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision in June, said congressional district boundaries are inherently political and the responsibility of state legislatures, not the courts.
***States must redraw their congressional district map every 10 years, following the U.S. Census, to account for shifts in population.
****The 9th Congressional District is so named because it runs in a band along Lake Erie from Cleveland to Toledo.
*****An efficiency gap counts and weighs the number of votes wasted in both parties in electing a congressional representative.