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Originally Posted by jsmih
Generally, gerrymandering only impacts Congressional representation in the House. The Senate and President winners are set by the statewide vote, not the votes in individual congressional districts.
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One thing fixing the gerrymandering in a state can do in regards to statewide elections like Senate and President is make it harder to suppress the vote. For example, in 2004 in Ohio when the Secretary of State set things up, he sent a large number of voting machines to Republican heavy areas and a lot less to Democrat heavy areas. This made for long lines in the Democrat heavy areas and likely suppressed some vote. If there is less gerrymandering the districts, in theory, will be more balanced so it will be harder to do things like this.