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District, with different representatives, and a different polling polling >> >> on election day for the primaries, i walked in there and they said that i couldn't vote because i wasn't registered in the district. >> reporter: so you registered to vote on campus, but the dorm you lived in meant that you actually couldn't vote on >> campus? >> i had i had to vote on a location, off camp >> reporter: nick >> reporter: nick knight and love caesar are students here. they spent a lot of time helping other students figure out how to >> vote. >> you think about electoral process, democracy, you think ...

Appropriate nowadays? >> all maps are absolutely a political endeavor. everyone who draws maps or who engages in this process is going to have some kind of bias. >> reporter: so maybe should someone like you not be drawing the maps? >> so who would draw up the maps >> reporter: then? >> reporter: the supreme court is supposed to make a decision on gerrymandering before new maps are drawn in 2020. if it is ruled unconstitutional, we'll probably see more limits on using partisan politics to make maps. but what that actually means still brings us back to the original question. what is a fair map?...

Struck down that state's congressional map after democrats charged that the 18 districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to benefit republicans. they had a pretty good case, even though democrats outnumber republicans in the state, the republicans hold a 13-5 advantage in congressional seats. and that's because after the 2010 census, the gop-controlled legislature drew up wildly gerrymandered districts like pennsylvania's 7th district which is not so affectionately known as goofy kicking donald duck. they could not agree to a new fair map. republicans unsuccessfully appealed to the u.s. ...

They had a pretty good case, even though democrats outnumber republicans in the state, the republicans hold a 13-5 advantage in congressional seats. and that's because after the 2010 census, the gop-controlled legislature drew up wildly gerrymandered districts like pennsylvania's 7th district which is not so affectionately known as goofy kicking donald duck. they could not agree to a new fair map. republicans unsuccessfully appealed to the u.s. supreme court in a hail mary to keep the old map. that didn't work. and one even threatened to impeach the democratic justices who made the initial rul...