What’s Worse Than Gerrymandering?

How Britain ended up with “rotten boroughs” — and how it got rid of them.

A meeting of the Birmingham Political Union during the “Days of May” (public domain)

Here in the United States, we’re about to indulge in an orgy of gerrymandering. The process is named after its innovator, Elbridge Gerry, who, when he was the Governor of Massachusetts in 1812., allowed the creation of an unusually shaped congressional district to help his political…