The Tech That Draws Your District
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🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus take a deep look into gerrymandering and the highly specialized mapping technology that has allowed for political parties - especially the GOP since 2010 - to drastically change the way political districts are drawn and controlled. The hosts are joined by David Daley, a senior fellow at FairVote and the author of Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy. This interview was recorded on March 13th, so no news or tabs this week, but we’ll be back to our regular schedule next week.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Will Oremus. |
| 0:14.2 | And I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah. Hey everyone, welcome to If Then. |
| 0:29.5 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, |
| 0:34.1 | a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:36.2 | We have a special show this week. |
| 0:38.7 | We'll be taking a deep look into gerrymandering and the highly specialized mapping technology that has allowed political parties, especially |
| 0:43.8 | the GOPs starting in 2010, to drastically change the way political districts are drawn and |
| 0:48.8 | controlled. We'll be speaking with David Daly, who wrote a book about gerrymandering. And this |
| 0:53.9 | interview, by the way, was recorded on March 13th. |
| 0:56.7 | So no news or tabs this week, but we'll be back to our regular schedule the next week. |
| 1:01.8 | Our guest today is David Daly. |
| 1:03.7 | He's a senior fellow at Fair Vote, a national electoral reform organization. |
| 1:08.2 | He's also a digital media fellow at the Wilson Center for Humanities and the |
| 1:12.0 | Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia and was formerly the editor-in-chief at |
| 1:16.6 | Salon. He's also the author of Rat Fucked, the Drew's Story behind the Secret Plan to Steal |
| 1:21.6 | America's Democracy. David, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:26.6 | Gerrymandering is not new. |
| 1:28.6 | It's been around for decades, and it's been contentious for probably about as long as it's been around. |
| 1:34.8 | But it seems like it's kind of gotten a boost from a lot of high-tech inventions over the past decade or so. |
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