Gerrymandering, sort of

Modern-day gerrymandering has become an art form in this country, and an Advocate article in today's edition made me think of it last night at work.

Apparently, some township residents just west of the current city of Newark boundary can't endure the thought of being annexed into big, bad Newark. Thus, they've filed a petition that would allow them to officially join the village of Granville, walling off Newark's western edge nearly in its entirety and making an extension of Granville that certainly evokes gerrymandering.