Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish an unfair political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries, which is most commonly used in first-past-the-post electoral systems.
After new population data emerges from the census every ten years, Congressional boundar- ies must be redrawn to reflect shifts in population. How this process is done is often highly politicized and some critics have argued that it undermines democracy. This issue inspires political cartoonists to offer interpreta- tions and express opinions about gerrymandering
