BB, the Texas map was gerrymandered beyond recognition. Both side do something like this, but I saw your map and it had no explanation on that site.   As I mentioned before, the explanatory site was inaccessible (not found).

HuffPost has this article which I have retitled:

Kiss democracy goodbye.

"unless the Repugs have bought out most of the companies that provide the vote-counting machines."

LH, this is actually what the crooked GOP'ers have done.