Gerrymandering Propaganda.

Gerrymandering is actually something I found on this website that has even more fallacies that the book doesn't cover: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/here-are-15-common-data-fallacies-to-avoid/

Gerrymandering is the deliberate change of a geographical location in order to change the results, usually meaning apportion in order to take the biggest benefit. For instance if you take the a democratic election in Texas, United States which is 60% Democrat and 40% Republican, Democrats win right? However, politicians use tactics such as Gerrymandering in order to alter the result in specific shapes/methods showed on wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering#:~:text=In%20representative%20democracies%2C%20Gerrymandering%20(%2F,economic%20class%20within%20the%20constituency.

Is this a fallacy?

A fallacy has to be in the context of an argument.

If it's an incorrect empirical claim, it's just  factually incorrect.

If it's a long-term systemic error in general reasoning, then it's a cognitive bias .

In the case of gerrymandering, it's neither. It's just a (morally dubious) policy.

Gerrymandering is not a logical fallacy, and as Shawn points out, has been (unfortunately) around for a couple of centuries.

What. is a logical fallacy is when Democrats or Republicans lambast the practice when utilized by the other party but ignore it when done by their their own party.  This is cherry picking.    Attorney General Garland has filed lawsuits against Republican states with gerrymandering but ignored it in Democratic states.  Tuesday's Wall Street Journal had an article describing the ridiculous lines being drawn In New York to prevent Republicans from getting a few seats in the mostly Democratic state.  It should be abolished but in the meantime it should be acknowledged that it's politics as usual by both sides.