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In a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans two to one, Maryland’s Democratic mapmakers have turned an eight-member House delegation that was split evenly between the parties in 2000 into one that now has seven Democrats and one Republican.
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And yet, somehow, mapmakers kept drawing California as an island for over two hundred years.
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But the ones accusing mapmakers of partisan gerrymandering had limited success previously.
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A few Democrats spoke against the measure for reasons including failing to enshrine voting rights in the Ohio Constitution and allowing mapmakers to divide communities along racial and ethnic lines.
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This is what happened when Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial tried to buy remittance heavyweight Moneygram and when Alibaba competitor Tencent tried to invest in Here Technologies, a digital mapmaker.
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What the mapmakers were trying to do was to link up enough pockets of conservative voters to ensure that a Republican would keep the seat, no matter the insult to geography or common sense.
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If most mapmakers are unabashedly partisan, their work goes well beyond back-room politics.
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Like many mapmakers of the era, Monte had a tendency to fill in the empty spaces on his map.
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