Well, in a perfect world, people wouldn’t vote specifically to hurt others.
Then the people living in those 10 blocks have to live with whatever the rest voted for regardless of whether it works for them or not with no hope of things ever changing because they’re a minority.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Yes, that’s how it’s supposed to be. Your regional representative is supposed to represent your region. If you’re the minority in the region then you don’t get to pick the representative.
We don’t have a proportional voting system. The system is not designed to ensure that elected party makeup matches voter preference distribution.
The minority voters in your scenario get their say in the Senate votes where everything is equal and the district is the entire state.
In any case, the scenario you’re describing is more representative of the cracking type of gerrymandering that’s the problem. A collection of voters in a region being split amongst multiple districts to dilute their votes is what gerrymandering is.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Hmm, I think I might have completely fucked up my phrasing somewhere because you seem to be agreeing with me.