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That was designed to cram as many african-american voters as you could so that the surrounding districts became more reliably republican. goofy kicking donald duck. which was a republican drawn seat outside of philadelphia. >> in ohio the snake along the lake. pennsylvania 16th looks like a body builder's arm. in texas, some of the tortilla strip districts. >> maryland's third district, it literally starts kind of up in baltimore and wanders around this way and then that way. >> some people say it looks like a broken dinosaur. i think is looks like a bug against a windshield. to each his own. ...

Pennsylvania 16th looks like a body builder's arm. in texas, some of the tortilla strip districts. >> maryland's third district, it literally starts kind of up in baltimore and wanders around this way and then that way. >> some people say it looks like a broke en dinosaur. >> gerrymandering distorts the nature of a democracy. it allows parties to win more seats even when they have fewer votes. it's the dark art of redistricting. >> redistricting is the sole province of the state legislatures. the state length tgislatures ar composed of partisans. >> it's a partisan free-for-all. there are few ...

Applicable to the party that wants to have those voters. so they move the lines to accommodate what candidates they want. e are reay the only modern democracy in the world that allows our politicians to draw thein lines ande own voters. >> the reason people should be concerned about gerrymandering is because as a result of the way district lines are drawn, election results are preordained well before november. >> the savviest stry esiest stre talking about the republican party would be a minority party for generations to come. it didn't happen that way.

Parties and politics, the supreme court has stayed away from it. let's bump that to congress. that's the president's,he role they have had hands ty. >> the hard issue is are there standards manageable by a court, not by some group of social science computer experts. >> we have to be cautious about stepping in. >> i don't think there's anything unusual to regulate the abusive management of state elections by state government. that's what the -- >> where did one person one vote come from? >> the last couple cases that have gone to the united states supreme court have resulted in a very divided c...

>> we don't know what the districts will look like. we know what democracy looks li ke. >> people are beginning to say there's something wrong with this. because i don't feel that my vote counts. >> there's an energy around the country. the voters are fired up. for 2018. to make their voices heard. >> we need to get back to the basics and allow theoters to choose their elected officials and not the other way around. >> this not a partisan issue. this is patriotism issue. if the supreme court says we're thot going to address the problem, it will get more severe. the result will be government th...