How do lawmakers redraw legislative districts to benefit one political party?

As it becomes increasingly likely Indiana Republican lawmakers will make a new congressional district map, several listeners have asked how one party redraws districts to benefit them politically.

Kareem Crayton is the vice president of the Brennan Center for Justice's Washington, D.C. office. He said gerrymandering is when lawmakers who draw representative districts — whether for state House and Senate seats or seats in the U.S. House of Representatives — artificially enhance their power by grouping voters together in selective ways.

"You distribute them in a manner that assures that, regardless of whether or not the public supports your party overall in the state, you're grouped in a way that keeps your preferred candidates, from your party, in power," Crayton said.

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