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The goal of "Gerrymandering" is to re-draw a district's boundaries in order to maximize your voters while keeping out your opponents. While typically successful, the remaining districts are then filled with voters from the other party, resulting in districts that vote overwhelmingly for their own party - which then tends to throw the local-city-state-federal governments into gridlock as it becomes virtually impossible for an independent or bi-partisan candidate to be elected.

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