Now Democrats are complaining about the gerrymandered 'ghettos' Democrats created.
Gerrymandering is corruption. It is vote farming. Both parties do it. Did I mention it is corruption? It is corrupt. Wicked and evil too.
I WISH they would look at Arizona. The Dems illegally gerrymandered this state in 2010 and Gov Brewer sued. A Clinton judge threw out the lawsuit and the Left was able to Gerrymander Kirsten Sinema into a seat that she is using as a springboard to her Senate run. CHEATING! And CRIMINAL DEM JUDGES!
The dems would lose probably half their seats across the country if the courts drops gerrymandering.
I think elections should be across counties only as the smallest voting block, AND they should be vertically and horizontally congruent.
A decision on one outstanding ruling is possible tomorrow at 10 am.
My, ‘Little Inner Libertarian’ wants me to leave this here:
“The smallest minority on Earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” ~ Ayn Rand
Man, Oh, Man! Has our Government subverted OUR RIGHTS at EVERY opportunity, for THEIR gain.
*SPIT*
P.S. ‘Minorities’ has NOTHING to do with race, religion, creed or color. It’s ALL of us AMERICANS, individually who make up the whole.
This is going to be a hard decision.
In past, federal judges have thrown out race neutral maps, because it diluted the minority vote; but they have also thrown out maps that guaranteed minority representation in some districts, because it was argued that had they been race neutral, minorities *might* have picked up seats in other districts.
Yep, the SCOTUS is going to earn its beer with this one.
Predicted criteria from the Court: any ‘gerrymandering’ that benefits conservatives (or by association, Trump) is automatically unconstitutional.
One simple thing would be to not allow the crossing of a jurisdictional line, like that of a city or county.
I remember two such stunts in my prior tenure in the DPRM:
1) College Park was cut in half by the dems, placing each in an adjoining district. This eliminated any student vote from being effective.
2) Again, later,the dems, apparently wanting more party purity, changed Connie Morella’s (R) district from solely Montgomery county areas to include Prince George’s county. That took her out the next election.
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6-3 partisan gerrymandering is OK, if Democrats do it.
We now have the technology to easily make completely unbiased electoral maps generated by computer. The programmers should be given Monte Carlo data, for the state and create a program that will create compact and contiguous electoral boundries from it. Once everyone is satisfied that the program generates unbiased maps, feed them with census data, and take the map produced. The program should be entirely open source, and the data completely public so anyone can validate the results because the process would then be perfectly deterministic. Of course, that would be far too logical and unbiased, so it will never be done.
What’s going on here, who says we must have equitable representation. If that’s the case why doesn’t it apply to senators, we have two left wingers in NY and neither represents all of upstate NY.