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John Oliver explains gerrymandering

Gerrymandering: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

If there’s one thing humans are good at, it’s gaming systems. John Oliver goes after the dirty political practice of gerrymandering.

In Pennsylvania, forty-four percent of the voters chose Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives in 2014, but 13 of the 18 districts, more than two-thirds, are represented by Republicans.

In Ohio, about forty percent of the voters chose Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives, but 12 out of 16 seats, three-quarters of them, are represented by Republicans.

Those numbers are way out of proportion to what people should expect. You wouldn’t accept Neapolitan ice cream that was seventy-five percent strawberry. How is that okay? What perverts voted for this?

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