In a high-stakes, low-visibility cartographical clash, both claim their rocky peninsulas as the barrier between the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

One classic, however, is missing: Lolita. Kreitner proactively defends himself saying, "Lolita's road-trip passages are scattered and defiant of cartographical order."

Those lopsided results are no accident in a system where elected representatives get to handpick their voters through computer-assisted cartographical sleight of hand.