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Gerrymandering & Big Data: How Software Rewrites US Elections
What happens when the constitutional baseline of "one person, one vote" collides with highly sophisticated geographic software?
In this bonus deep-dive of Whereabouts Tales, we pull back the curtain on the invisible architecture of American political power. Emily Pabst, who previously managed redistricting data for the Kansas Legislative Research Department, joins us to explain exactly how electoral lines are drawn—and how they are manipulated.
We trace the evolution of redistricting from hand-drawn maps to the deployment of complex GIS software capable of slicing demographic data down to the…
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