NY Redistricting

[DBA]

I thought it was Republicans who were attempting to disenfranchise voters? Nope, when Democrats realize they can’t win on the issues, they simply change the rules.

I posed a link from CNN so the lefties would read it and couldn’t criticize the source.

New York completes congressional redistricting, likely netting Democrats several seats

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

I thought it was Republicans who were attempting to disenfranchise voters? Nope, when Democrats realize they can’t win on the issues, they simply change the rules.

I posed a link from CNN so the lefties would read it and couldn’t criticize the source.

New York completes congressional redistricting, likely netting Democrats several seats

Won't make it through court

 

[Jets]

This is why gerrymandering needs to be eliminated.

 

[DGS49]

A recent awful President famously made the remark that "Elections have consequences."

It is now apropos.

The point of the remark is that when people are elected to do a certain thing, they are also empowered - quite legitimately - to do other things that the electors may not have envisioned. I vote for a President to restore peace and harmony and bipartisanship to Washington, and all of a sudden he opens the border with Mexico - or whatever.

When "we" elect our state legislatures toward the end of each decade it may not be for the specific purpose of drawing the lines for district representation, but Elections have Consequences. The drawing of these districts after each census by the elected legislature (or their minions) can impact a few legislative seats (state and national) but even with the most artful map-drawing, it's only a few seats. The Democrats have a systemic problem because they tend to live in urban districts where they hold massive majorities. The rest of most states - the suburban and rural areas - usually trend Republican, so that even if the line-drawing is completely non-partisan, it is entirely possible that a state with a slight Democrat majority will have more Republican districts. In my home state of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are wildly Democrat but the remainder of the state tilts Republican.

Contrariwise, it is possible that a state like Pennsylvania can have a popular Democrat majority, a Republican majority in the legislature, but a small group of Democrat hacks in the State Supreme Court. So when the Republicans draw the districts, that plan is thwarted by elected judges and justices, who substitute their own political preferences for the desires of the legitimately-elected legislature.

On top of all that, consider that Leftists are evil, and do everything they can, legal or otherwise, not only to win elections, but to game the system so that they will win all future elections.

It's not a pretty scenario.

 

[DudleySmith]

This is why gerrymandering needs to be eliminated.

This is why 'winner take all' elections need to be banned from the electoral college elections and legislative elections at all levels.