Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Gerrymandering

I was watching NY1 news this morning and they were commenting on the redrawing of political boundaries in NY State - interesting "Factoid" the word gerrymandering is from America.

Basically it was coined in 1812 regarding "the look" of a Boston election redrawing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

...lol useless things you never needed to know.


Cheers,
Dean

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