tions short of outright fraud. Why would politicians bother stuffing ballots when they can just draw districts?

Review

The movie of the year --US News and World Report

An exceptionally entertaining film --New York Magazine

Nail-biting suspense --The Washington Post

36:T786,There is a lot most Americans do not know about politics. Even this (but very important) concept of Gerrymandering is one that should have been more explosive in the past.Every decade, the census occurs. With that information, politicians (both Republican and Democratic) engage in a legal form of voter manipulation. In other words, they rezone their voting districts to their advantage - the people most likely to vote for them in upcoming elections. It's legal and dastardly. Winners control Congress for the next ten years. That means 2020 is the next time this can occur. California passed Proposition 11 that kept it in check, oddly, with the support of none other than that `political character', Arnold Swartzenegger.Politicians don't need to cheat with ballot stuffing or voting machine manipulation. They can simply redraw districts to suit their reelection. Senator Obama was elected this way in Illinois. He changed his districting from the south of Chicago to the wealthy coast of Lake Michigan. It is legal.Gerrymandering was named after Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry. In 1812, Governor Gerry signed a bill that redistricted Massachusetts to benefit his Democratic-Republican Party. When mapped, one of the contorted districts in the Boston area was said to resemble the shape of a salamander. Some of the maps shown in this film look like a Rorschach test.The entire section on how a prison community (prisoners cannot vote) can be easily swayed to one politician with literally less than a handful of votes is stunning.This film is only 77 minutes long, but it is packed with easy to understand information, graphs, interviews and clever shenanigans