# Daughter of GOP's Gerrymandering Mastermind Has Released His Maps and Files
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [January 7, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056 "2020-01-07T04:15:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/1 "2020-01-07T04:15:44Z")
> **[The Anarchist Daughter of the GOP's Gerrymandering Mastermind Just Dumped His...](https://www.vice.com/en/article/pked4v/the-anarchist-daughter-of-the-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-just-dumped-all-his-maps-and-files-on-google-drive)**
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> “I won't be satisfied that we the people have found everything until we the people have had a look at it in its entirety,” she said.
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> The daughter of late GOP gerrymandering mastermind just put all of his files online in a Google Drive for anyone to read.
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> But on Sunday, his daughter, Stephanie, who identifies as an anarchist, tweeted them out. She’d announced her plans to release the files last month and has now made them public on a website: [thehofellerfiles.com](http://thehofellerfiles.com), which links to a Google Drive full of his emails and documents related to his gerrymandering work.
Here’s the files: [http://www.thehofellerfiles.com](http://www.thehofellerfiles.com)
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/2 "2020-01-07T05:44:38Z")
Thanks for that, **davidm**! I owe you one!
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/3 "2020-01-07T12:48:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Thanks for that, **davidm**! I owe you one!
You’re welcome. Does this affect your state?
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/4 "2020-01-07T13:08:20Z")
I’m cautiously optimistic (the only way I’m optimistic lately) that this will be a smoking gun that will lead to big changes in court decisions and legislative priorities around gerrymandering. It’s a centuries-old subversion of democracy that needs to end.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/5 "2020-01-07T15:31:20Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> I’m cautiously optimistic (the only way I’m optimistic lately) that this will be a smoking gun that will lead to big changes in court decisions and legislative priorities around gerrymandering. It’s a centuries-old subversion of democracy that needs to end.
You and me both. Voters should be able to choose their representatives, not the other way around.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/6 "2020-01-07T20:32:07Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> You’re welcome. Does this affect your state?
Unsure. I’m in Nevada, so it’s not as direct a connection as many east coast states, but the guy did work for ddamn near everyone it seems. Mostly I just appreciate the opportunity to pick through things myself.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/7 "2020-01-07T20:54:49Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Unsure. I’m in Nevada, so it’s not as direct a connection as many east coast states, but the guy did work for ddamn near everyone it seems. Mostly I just appreciate the opportunity to pick through things myself.
If you find anything interesting, post it.
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### Author:  [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/8 "2020-01-07T21:06:48Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> If you find anything interesting, post it.
Vampire erotica. Is that interesting? Because there’s some of that in there among other types of erotica.
For real.
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### Author:  [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/9 "2020-01-07T21:50:46Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> I’m cautiously optimistic (the only way I’m optimistic lately) that this will be a smoking gun that will lead to big changes in court decisions and legislative priorities around gerrymandering. It’s a centuries-old subversion of democracy that needs to end.
Paging the SCOTUS. Yeah, I am not at all optimistic.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/10 "2020-01-08T08:07:57Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#):
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> Vampire erotica. Is that interesting? Because there’s some of that in there among other types of erotica.
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> For real.
That may be interesting, beyond prurient interest.
It shows that he maybe didn’t bother, or maybe even understand, about encrypting files, so there could be some legally or politically interesting stuff that’s not hidden.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/11 "2020-01-08T12:13:44Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> That may be interesting, beyond prurient interest.
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> It shows that he maybe didn’t bother, or maybe even understand, about encrypting files, so there could be some legally or politically interesting stuff that’s not hidden.
He also failed to encrypt the baby pictures. This isn’t a release of his maps and files, it’s a dump of his entire personal harddrive. I’m a little creeped out pokng through it.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/12 "2020-01-08T15:36:27Z")
> [@CarnalK](#):
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> He also failed to encrypt the baby pictures. This isn’t a release of his maps and files, it’s a dump of his entire personal harddrive. I’m a little creeped out pokng through it.
On reddit some people mentioned that they found child porn erotica on the hard drive too. Not sure if that was put there intentionally to scare people away or if that was just something the guy was into.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/13 "2020-01-08T15:56:52Z")
Or maybe some people on reddit are full of crap? I’d wait on believing that.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/14 "2020-01-08T17:28:13Z")
> **[r/HofellerDocuments - Another pedophilic fiction found](https://www.reddit.com/r/HofellerDocuments/comments/el4mvp/another_pedophilic_fiction_found/)**
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> 55 votes and 2 comments so far on Reddit
> **[r/HofellerDocuments - This Whole Pedophile Literature Issue Goes DEEP](https://www.reddit.com/r/HofellerDocuments/comments/el2xwz/this_whole_pedophile_literature_issue_goes_deep/)**
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> 140 votes and 35 comments so far on Reddit
> **[r/HofellerDocuments - Pedophilic Literature Found](https://www.reddit.com/r/HofellerDocuments/comments/eknjpa/pedophilic_literature_found/)**
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> 1,026 votes and 371 comments so far on Reddit
At the very least, it should be looked into. I wonder if he did that to scare people out of looking into his hard drive.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/15 "2020-01-08T18:49:14Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> [Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/HofellerDocuments/comments/el4mvp/another_pedophilic_fiction_found/)
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> [Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/HofellerDocuments/comments/el2xwz/this_whole_pedophile_literature_issue_goes_deep/)
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> [Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/HofellerDocuments/comments/eknjpa/pedophilic_literature_found/)
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> At the very least, it should be looked into. I wonder if he did that to scare people out of looking into his hard drive.
How would that work? Was he planning on him dying and his daughter releasing the drive contents?
In any case it wouldnt deter law enforcement or the courts.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/16 "2020-01-08T19:15:40Z")
I’m wondering if he left them there to scare people out of downloading and sifting through his hard drive contents if that ever happened.
Or he could just be into that stuff and figured nobody would see it.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/17 "2020-01-08T19:26:05Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> In any case it wouldnt deter law enforcement or the courts.
Do they arrest and prosecute dead guys?
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/18 "2020-01-08T19:35:59Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> I’m wondering if he left them there to scare people out of downloading and sifting through his hard drive contents if that ever happened.
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> Or he could just be into that stuff and figured nobody would see it.
So his clever plan was to make himself look like a pedophile to scare away snoopers? Yeah, no.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/19 "2020-01-08T19:46:59Z")
How big of an a-hole must this guy have been for his own kid to dox him like this.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daughter-of-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-has-released-his-maps-and-files/846056/20 "2020-01-08T19:49:30Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Do they arrest and prosecute dead guys?
Of course not, but some of those files might be relevant in redistricting cases.
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