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Democracy on life support

By Pablo Lacayo · Wednesday, March 2, 2022

A couple of weeks ago, a good friend of mine called me out in the middle of class for not paying attention to the lecture, and beckoned me to stop goofing around my computer. She asked me what I was doing, unable to figure out the purpose of the website I was playing around in to pass the time. My reply was simple: “Irene, I’m gerrymandering”. To her, it was a completely foreign concept. To me, it’s been the focus of one of my latest pastimes this academic year.

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