The person who draws an electoral boundary can rearrange a community without moving any homes.

Lines on a map can reassemble a community without a single person moving. Who counts as your neighbours, whose interests you are grouped with, and what your collective voice adds up to are all decided by someone drawing a boundary. Power over definitions is power over outcomes.

Worth watching wherever categories get drawn, in reorganizations, in how teams are split, in who is counted with whom. The decision looks technical and it determines results. If a boundary is being redrawn around you, it is entirely reasonable to ask who drew it, on what basis, and what the alternative arrangements were.