Quiz: Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering has been around since the very beginning of America.

__X_ True*

___ False

 

The U.S. Supreme Court has said gerrymandering reform is not an issue for the courts to decide.

_X__ True**

____ False

 

By law, states must redraw their congressional map every four years.

___ True

_X__ False***

 

The “Snake on the Lake” refers to Ohio’s ______

_X__ 9^th Congressional District****

___ 1^st Congressional District

___ 2^nd Congressional District

___ 4^th Congressional District

___ A rollercoaster ride at Cedar Point.

A popular way to measure the impact of gerrymandering is called _____

__X__ an efficiency gap*****

____ voter turnout

____ the disengagement factor

____ partisan skewing

*Our Founding Fathers gave state legislatures the right to draw congressional district lines without political restrictions.

**The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision in June, said congressional district boundaries are inherently political and the responsibility of state legislatures, not the courts.

***States must redraw their congressional district map every 10 years, following the U.S. Census, to account for shifts in population.

****The 9^th Congressional District is so named because it runs in a band along Lake Erie from Cleveland to Toledo.

*****An efficiency gap counts and weighs the number of votes wasted in both parties in electing a congressional representative.