In the United States reapportionment and redistricting are both processes for deciding voting lines. Reapportionment is the process of reassessing the amount of congressional house seats for each state. Reapportionment is conducted through a census. This takes place every ten years, during which every person, citizen or not, is counted in each state. The process also decides the amount of votes each state gets for the electoral College. Iowa had five seats, but due to reapportionment we lost a seat in the electoral college, symbolizing our loss of population. Redistricting is the redrawing of district to keep populations equal in the districts. Redistricting involves balancing populations and voter populations within the state, where as reapportionment
