Hello! Welcome to all peoples from around the world to an educational exercise I've created to address gerrymandering in the United States. Briefly, gerrymandering is "manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class." However, this is not a place devoted to researching or proving the effects of gerrymandering. This website is solely devoted to dispelling the myth that no good metric exists for measuring a district's 'gerrymander-ness' - a myth that prevents the issue from being litigated and the very veil that conceals the worst redistricting offenders.

Most of the material is designed for you to follow along with free products, but near the end I summarize some of the more advanced topics. As a preview, below the navigator is a heat-map of all the congressional voting districts in the lower 48 states gradated by the ratio of their perimeter to their area. Immediately it's quite telling! Later, we'll talk about why a perimeter / area ratio is not the best metric and explore better metrics, or you can just go straight to the results page if you're in a hurry.

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