Gerrymandering, an Epic card

Gerrymandering, defined in the contexts of representative electoral systems, is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.
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Rarity: Epic
Domain: History
ATK: 92
DEF: 77
Power: 169
Wikipedia reads a year: 500,000

Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.

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Gerrymandering quiz: 3 questions

Three questions on the Gerrymandering card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.

Find the missing word
The ______ may involve "cracking" or "packing".
Answer
manipulation. The manipulation may involve "cracking" or "packing". From the Gerrymandering article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Gerrymandering. Gerrymandering 92 · Kingdom of Great Britain 83 · Maurice White 80 · Tenzing Norgay 77 ATK in WikiCards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

The manipulation may involve "cracking" or "packing".
Gerrymandering can also be used to protect incumbents.
Wayne Dawkins, a professor at Morgan State University, describes it as politicians picking their voters instead of voters picking their politicians.

Why it is Epic

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gerrymandering article was read about 500,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 92 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.

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