John Oliver tackles gerrymandering

Democracy, which John Oliver deemed on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, "undeniably the best Greek export that doesn’t have fruit at the bottom" has a few issues, like gerrymandering.

A report from PBS backed up Oliver’s claim that the manipulation of voting district boundaries has given Republicans an advantage in the House of Representatives. The report showed that the number of citizens voting for Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania and Ohio was disproportionate to the number of corresponding representatives.

"Those numbers are way out of proportion to what people should expect," Oliver declared. "You wouldn’t accept Neapolitan ice cream that was 75% strawberry. How is that okay? What perverts voted for this?"

Erin Jensen , USAToday

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