Gerrymandering.
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Legistlators often use one of three tactics:
Excess vote - the controling party concentrates opposition's power to only a few districts.
Wasted vote - the controling party dillutes opposition's power over many districts.
Stacked Method - the controlling party draws the bounderies in their favor.
This is the process known as Gerrymandering. Parties draw boundaries to include or exclude minorities or the opposing party to alter the outcomes.
It is called gerrymandering when a party tries to redraw the district lines in a state. Doing this can give a party an unfair advantage.
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State legislatures in each state are responsible for drawing congressional district boundaries. There are 435 congressional districts in the United States.
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Gerrymandering tries to create districts that have a partisan advantage. By doing this, the practice of it affects congressional district boundaries by attempting to stretch them.
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Gerrymandering occurs when a congressional district's boundaries are redrawn to give one party a clear advantage over another. In the US, redistricting occurs after the results of the Census are tabulated. Redistricting is currently (2012) occurring in the US. Because in most states a state's legislature gets to decide on the redistricting plan, the party currently in power often attempts to give themselves an advantage in future elections by gerrymandering.
Congressional district boundaries in Tennessee, like in many other states, change mainly due to population shifts. The boundaries are redrawn every ten years after the decennial census to ensure that each district has roughly the same number of residents. Additionally, political factors and partisan considerations can also influence the process of redistricting in Tennessee, as in other states.