Letters to editor: End gerrymandering in Pa.

Letters to editor: End gerrymandering in Pa.

Imagine a Superbowl where referees grant their favorite team first downs after just eight yards and the opposing team after the normal ten.  Enraged fans would storm the field. Yet this is the football equivalent of gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is an incumbent protection racket, perfected with modern computer algorithms. Politicians rig maps to favor their party and themselves, and like the eight-yard first down, they pervert the game. After t…