Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

• hypna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This issue is actually pretty weird. Racial gerrymandering is a violation of the voting rights act, hence illegal. Partisan gerrymandering is completely legal. In practice this seems to mean that it is harder to gerrymander in states where racial voting patterns align with party, e.g. whites vote Republican, blacks vote Democrat. In states where party lines do not predominantly fall on racial lines, you can hack up the districts to favor your party as much as you like.

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  • chosensilence@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    wow, i did not know that. thank you for elaborating. i looked into it further and found SCOTUS asshole Roberts: "The Constitution supplies no objective measure for assessing whether a districting map treats a political party fairly.” lol cool, cool…

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    • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He’s being quiet about the part where the founders failed to predict an institutionalized two-party system.

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      • Arcka@midwest.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Many of the founding fathers were against political parties altogether and absolutely anticipated a two party equilibrium.

        usconstitution.net/founding-fathers-warnings/

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      • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So much of their arguments really on that; “clearly the Constitution says nothing explicitly on this issue (or alternatively, the constitution wasn’t microscopically specific this was a case it had in mind so, really, who are we to allow it to apply to this scenario?); as an originalist, I just presume that there was no intent rather than assuming anyone in the project of writing a founding document has any interest in it working fairly or well.”

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  • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Florida has racial Gerrymandering. they just don’t recognize race. problem averted.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If our laws were transparent how would anyone read them

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