Fun with complex geometric shapes.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Congressional districts - Brief article

Not only have Republican legislatures sought to suppress Democratic votes by passing voter ID laws, they are removing Democratic voters from close congressional districts by redistricting. In Pennsylvania, for example, Naftali Bendavid of the Wall Street Journal found that as a result of redistricting, Republican Representative Lou Barletta had gone from "vulnerable to iron clad." A map of his district showed that it had been radically reshaped. What would have fit into a...