October 27, 2026
A Dummymander Doesn’t Undo the Damage to Voters
Political scientists call a map that backfires a dummymander. It happens when mapmakers get overconfident, carving up communities to thinly stretch their party’s advantage across as many districts as they can manage. Instead of settling for a few safe seats, they trade safety for volume, betting that voters will vote the same way they did […]