One Reason Why Redistricting Is Controversial Is That

question 51

Multiple Choice

One reason why redistricting is controversial is that

• A) computer technologies allow legislatures to know statistically what kinds of people live where and this can be used to give one party an advantage over the other.
• B) it is unclear whether state legislatures or the federal government has the authority to redraw districts.
• C) incumbents never lose when districts are redrawn.
• D) it is unclear whether districts have to be drawn in such a way that each district includes roughly the same number of people.
• E) interest groups and PACs exert a great deal of influence over the specific shape of each district.

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