It’s not just the Kochs - the GOP in general did a really effective job of gerrymandering after both the 2000 and 2010 censuses, and they also did a really effective job of taking over vulnerable state legislatures before those censuses so they’d have the legislative clout to do it. (There’s a well-discussed example of them throwing a lot of last-minute ad money at small districts in Pennsylvania that let them get a slim majority, and then exploiting the **** out of it.) They’ve also used that to push their Voter ID laws and other laws to make it hard for the poor to vote (e.g. early voting - and most states didn’t get caught using race as a marker for Democrat registration like NC did) and disenfranchising people with incorrect lists of “felons”, while adjusting the registration schedules so people who got to the polls and found they were no longer registered wouldn’t be able to fix it.
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