Gerrymander: the Game
Have you always dreamt of redistricting a state to disenfranchise a large minority party, or prevent those pesky ethnic minorities from having an effective voice in politics, while obeying the letter of the law? Then maybe you should play the Redistricting Game (Flash warning) and find out why some districts have the shapes they do.
It’s true, Maryland has some disgustingly biased gerrymanders for the Dems. And on the right, remember Tom Delay’s hard work to rig legislative districts in Texas.
Sadly, the founding fathers could not have guessed this outcome, any more than SMTP’s designers expected the problem of spam.