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

n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It isn’t actually, not in all cases. There is nothing in the constitution preventing it and the Supreme Court and state courts have said that there is no mechanism in place to either identify it objectively, nor to remedy it if found, with a few exceptions. The biggest exceptions are where it violates the Voting Rights Act or otherwise demonstrably discriminates on the basis of racial demographics, in which case it can be kicked back to the legislature with the directive to try to be less racist this time.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t forget that if you say it’s because the minority group votes against you then it’s officially political and not racist. Thanks SCOTUS.

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• Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This I didn’t know, wtf. So this whole bullshit has literally been illegal to begin with???

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  • n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was, though a few years ago SCOTUS decided it’s OK as long as you aren’t doing it because you are racist.

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    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And if you are doing it because you’re racist that’s OK, just don’t be too obvious about it.

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