• onslaught545@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    Gerrymandering isn’t a thing with presidential elections. The districts are used for congressional elections where there are multiple representatives per state.

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      6 days ago

      Oh, I actually didn’t know that. Does it not work for presidential elections?

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        Nope, presidential elections use the total for the whole state and electoral college fuckery. Although counties are used like you described for reporting purposes (except for Louisiana which has parishes instead of counties).