Get the fire hose, let’s paint the rest of the country blue too!
Democrats tried to ban gerrymandering for the last decade. Republicans have ALWAYS voted against it.
They know they lose when they don’t cheat and they are upset Democrats are not playing nice anymore.
I like how apparently a partisan judge is trying to block this now.
Texas: Fuck voters, we’re doing it without them.
CA/VA: Let’s defer to the voters as we should. Ok, they voted for it.
Partisan Hack Judge: Wait, no, not like that.
is there any actual benefit to having it subdivided at all in the first place? it just seems like another thing to fight over and undermine the value of particular voters.
Other than being able to use it to cheat in other to hold on to power?
Theoretically you get hyperspecific representatives. Maybe a district in the west would want to vote differently than a district in the east. Theoretically your vote is still just as valuable and you’re voting with your geographic peers.
In reality it just gets optimized for party votes and you end up with this
I’m in Texas. The far end of my district is over 400 miles away… And my district isn’t even the worst example.
The sort of idea of it is/was to give farmers and people living in rural i.e. less population dense areas a “fair” amount of voting power compared to cities. The idea does make sense to some extent, as city dwellers often make up a majority of the population, and are unlikely to have the farmers best interests in mind, which could be problematic for everyone. But this already shaky line of reasoning has been abused pretty much since its inception by the party in power to swing the vote in their favor by redrawing lines
Their crocodile tears have been delicious.
Totally on board with outlawing this shit entirely, by the way, but also totally over getting punched in the groin by the people who go low.
It’s also a great way of pressuring Republican politicians into actually banning it.
“You don’t like us playing by the rules you wanted? Help us change the rules then!”
They’ll only accept losing the power to gerrymander if it hurts Democrats more than Republicans.
We’ll have to do it more. There’s a reason they could only gerrymander 5 more seats into a state the size of Texas, and that’s because Texas was and is already gerrymandered to shit.
They still don’t want a ban because even after a few high profile Democrat gerrymanders, Republicans still benefit more.
Exactly that, I have stopped a while ago, I’ll joke with some of the naive ones say I can upset them with one sentence but, tell I mean in jest but I can act just like them, they ask what and I say one simple phrase that works every time loL “all Republicans must die” Then I say I don’t want to be serious about it so…
You know how MAGA has been full of shit every step of the way, trolling the libs with ragebait? Yeah, let’s do that to them all the way to 2028.
Exactly only Snowflake’s in this country is the GOP group of pedophiles
The fact that their evil dickhead grifters are doing overtime to cry and blame the Dems for not taking the gerrymandering laying down is awesome. We’re only here because of Trump demanding Texas gerrymander for five seats. You cocksuckers don’t get to punch someone in the face then complain when they fight back. I fucking hate right-wingers with all of my being. Horrible traitorous human beings.
We got a saying where I’m from. “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.”
If only someone would make a law that prevents this. Surely conservatives would never oppose a law like that?
Ok. First. Awesome! More. More. More of this. Democrats actually doing something. I’m happy.
Now, second, once you do something like this you have to be ready to fight HARDER now. My pessimism and time spent watching the Democratic party gives me an awful taste in my mouth.
If any, if fucking any Democrat tries to do the “what we need is to not allow blue states or red states to do this. We need reasonable democratic districts” they should be immediately be removed from the party. They are either delusional or just a Republican fascist. The Republicans aren’t suddenly going to “be reasonable”. Shut the fuck up and get out of politics.
Yokels surrounded by empty land want their 3x voting power back, boo fucking hoo. I’m proud of my state right now. SCV better not shit the bed on this one.
It bugs me that there is such a simple solution: just count total votes
This is for members of Congress. Simply counting total votes would mean 100% of the delegation to the house are from whatever party gets 50%+1 votes.
Yes, the majority of votes would elect the district’s chosen candidate. That’s correct.
All congressional districts already work like that. Gerrymandering is the practice of re-drawing distirct borders within an area so that your team has more districts with your voters as the majority.
You’re confusing the districts with Presidential election results.
In the presidential election the district lines actually don’t matter in terms of the outcome. They are just usually reported on election night as “by district”. This is likely what you are confusing or misremembering.
But, the state itself is based on a popular vote for the presidential election that determines who wins ALL of the states “electoral college votes”. Yes, stupidly confusing i know.
Meaning after counting all the votes in the entire state the winner is declared based on popular vote and ALL the “electoral votes” of those states will go to that winner.
Now, this is true for all BUT two states. Main and Nebraska are the exception. Their electoral votes are not “winner take all” for the popular vote. So, if it was one of those states what you are thinking would be correct actually. They split their electoral votes of the state based on the districts.
What is being discussed about districts in the OPs image is the redrawing of district maps. Each district elects a single representative in The House of Representatives. This is won by popular vote within each district and each district is independently represented. The votes from one district have nothing to do with the votes from another in this case.
This has always been a means of drawing the lines such that more of a certain party is likely to get more representatives. But, historically, this has primarily been aggressively done in red states. Especially in the south in order to reduce black voter and minority voter representation. Usually by attempting to draw a single district with as many black and minority voters as possible so they only get one representative.
Hope that clears up the confusion. You’re being downvoted but I think you’re just confused in a very purposely confusing electoral system.
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