Redistricting eliminated the gerrymandered dip into Manitowoc County, which served to crack the Manitowoc/Two Rivers community of interest. It also returns the liberal City of DePere to a district that contains all of Green Bay and its suburbs.
The boundary of Wisconsin's 2nd Assembly District currently includes portions of southern Brown County, northern Manitowoc County, and southeastern Outagamie County.
Shae Sortwell has won his four elections to the Assembly by double-digit margins in what can be considered a safe GOP district, even after redistricting. His 2026 challenger, Alicia Saunders, also ran against Sortwell in 2024 and lost by 26.5 points.
Shae what?!
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Malia Jones explains:
Wisconsin Applied Population Lab, 6/18/2018
Malia Jones explains:
Two core concepts of gerrymandering were central to the arguments presented to the high court: cracking and packing. A third process, known as stacking, also crops up in gerrymandered political maps, but was not the focus of Gill v. Whitford.
Cracking and packing both refer to specific ways of drawing legislative boundaries with the outcomes of elections in mind. These two processes operate in tension with one another, but both can be implemented by a party in power seeking to maximize its electoral chances through gerrymandering.
Packing refers to the practice of drawing particular districts in such a way as to ensure that another party's candidate wins that seat by a tremendous margin. Although the opposing party is all but guaranteed the seat, packing makes surrounding districts less competitive, and thus tips the balance of power in the legislative body overall toward the ruling party.
Cracking involves drawing districts in such a way as to divide a concentration of specific types of voters across several districts such that they are a minority in each one, with practically no hope of achieving representation in any of the districts. This practice also helps make districts less competitive. [emphasis added]
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