There was a race for the state's Supreme Court last year, and the Democratic candidate's

name started with E. So Republicans in North Carolina passed a law that said the first candidate

to be listed on the ballot, their names are going to start with the letter F. What?

They were literally willing to F over the voters.

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Republicans in North Carolina have a bit of a reputation for doing everything and anything

in their power to swing elections in their favor.

Dave Daley has written a lot about one of their favorite tricks, partisan gerrymandering.

We had Dave on the show back in April of last year to explain partisan gerrymandering because

he wrote a whole book about it called Ratfucked.

He explained the title with the help of one of his favorite bands.

Well, it has become a term for political deeds dunderciep, d'avaroa note from ACDC, as we

always should in our politics, and that's dirty deeds dunderciep.

Dunderciep.

Let's break it down.

J. J. Mandering, as you hopefully remember, is the dark art of drawing district lines to

advantage your party and disadvantage the other.

It can be used for good to make sure a certain voting group has political power, but time

and again, both parties use it for bad to just unfairly advantage their side.

And there are two ways to do it.

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