Gerrymandering would only change a state’s electoral college votes meaningfully in one or two states.

It’s more often an issue of:

1. Citizen becomes voter via “motor-votor” registration.
2. Later, state sends postcard asking to confirm voter’s address.
3. Voter sees postcard, looks like junkmail or fraudulent mail, discards without response.
4. State, not checking anything else, drops voter from roll.

I’m not sure which editor you refer to as “the OSM editor”, but surely id has it, JOSM can specify it, and StreetComplete has numerous quests that are disabled by default for various reasons but can be enabled (with SCEE having even more).

As for routing priority, that depends on the routing profile used by the router; there are dozens of routing profiles among several routing providers, many of which probably don’t use smoothness but could. OsmAnd can — it targets some smoothness values like unpaved.

Possibly not “companion” per se, but Every Door is available for iOS and MapComplete can run in browser. Go Map!! can provide more detailed editing.

BRouter and other routing engines can use attributes like surface and smoothness (and probably width) to calculate routes.

Are you referring to smoothness=bad or a narrow width? (I’m guessing you’ve been using StreetComplete to specify each.)

Yes, OsmAnd: https://osmand.net/docs/user/navigation/auto-car/