▲ 122 ▼ Supreme Court will weigh in on new mostly Black Louisiana congressional district, after election (apnews.com) submitted 2 years ago by AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to c/politics@lemmy.world 9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Yep, it's called Gerrymandering. Edit - The illegal part is when Republicans make less predominantly minority districts than they are required to by the Voting Rights Act. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) It's baffling that with todays technology it hasn't gone to mathematically distributed zones with none of the bullshit humans create, which can then be reviewed by a non partisan group to ensure nothing fucked up. Anyone who gerrymanders (dem or gop) knows they'd lose if it happened. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 point 2 years ago Yes, keeping the power is the reason both sides do it. And even if a non partisan group were to approve them, the GOP has been messing with them to suppress minorities and then just dragging their feet in changing them, or changing but in the same bad way and then running out the clock until it's "too close to the election to change the maps now". Then if they change afterwards they already got what they wanted, and then just rinse and repeat next time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) It's baffling that with todays technology it hasn't gone to mathematically distributed zones with none of the bullshit humans create, which can then be reviewed by a non partisan group to ensure nothing fucked up. Anyone who gerrymanders (dem or gop) knows they'd lose if it happened. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 point 2 years ago Yes, keeping the power is the reason both sides do it. And even if a non partisan group were to approve them, the GOP has been messing with them to suppress minorities and then just dragging their feet in changing them, or changing but in the same bad way and then running out the clock until it's "too close to the election to change the maps now". Then if they change afterwards they already got what they wanted, and then just rinse and repeat next time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 point 2 years ago Yes, keeping the power is the reason both sides do it. And even if a non partisan group were to approve them, the GOP has been messing with them to suppress minorities and then just dragging their feet in changing them, or changing but in the same bad way and then running out the clock until it's "too close to the election to change the maps now". Then if they change afterwards they already got what they wanted, and then just rinse and repeat next time. permalink fedilink source parent