Ohio League of Women Voters seeks to end gerrymandering
http://westlife.northcoastnow.com/2017/08/ohio-league-of-women-voters-seeks-to-end-gerrymandering/
There’s a reason the term “gerrymander” sounds like salamander. According to a popular tale, Eldridge Gerry, Massachusetts governor from 1810-1812, signed a bill that redistricted the state to benefit his Republican Party, to the dismay of the opposing Federalists. One district was said to be shaped like a salamander, to which a Federalist replied, “No, it’s a gerrymander.”
Mary Kirtz Von Nortwick, co-president of the Ohio League of Women Voters (LWV) recalled this story recently for an audience at the Rocky River Public Library. She continued that the practice of manipulating political districts to project the outcome of elections is as popular as ever in most states, with Ohio being one of the worst. The league, in collaboration with numerous other civic organizations, is working to end these strangely twisting configurations through “Fair Congressional Districts for Ohio, a bipartisan citizen-led movement to end gerrymandering in the state...
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