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Waelti: Gerrymandering favors those in power
John Waelti
U.S. House of Representative districts are apportioned and drawn so that, with the exception of sparsely populated states with only one House seat, each House district represents approximately the same number of constituents. Similarly, each state apportions their respective legislative districts such that each respective district within the state contains approximately the same number of constituents.