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(34,120 posts)They found enough heavily gerrymandered districts to make the alphabet!
How do you spell gerrymandering is bad? With a font made out of preposterous districts.
By
Kayla Epstein
August 2, 2019 at 4:28 p.m. EDT
In case you didnt get the memo, allow these designers to spell it out for you, literally: Gerrymandering is bad.
Gerrymandering is the process of drawing congressional districts to give one political party electoral power over the other, or to ensure safe seats, which often results in fairly ridiculous district shapes. Its a partisan problem that has garnered bipartisan scorn because both sides do it. Opponents of the practice say it disenfranchises voters and can skew the balance of power at the state and national levels.
{This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see}
To illustrate their scorn for the practice, three Chicago-based digital creatives created a font whose letters are composed of real-life districts, their borders so contorted that they resemble letters of the alphabet. Some states, such as California and Arizona, have attempted to stop gerrymandering by allowing independent panels to draw districts instead of lawmakers, though that hasnt deterred the Ugly Gerry team from using California districts to form the letters A, X and T or Arizonas 6th to represent O.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/02/how-do-you-spell-gerrymandering-is-bad-with-font-made-out-preposterous-districts/
If you'd like to download it:
https://uglygerry.com/