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Conservative SCOTUS Ruling Completely Demolishes Voting Rights Act, Kagan Says (truthout.org)
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[-] AlbynRailroad@fedinsfw.app 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I never really believed in gerrymandering for these purposes anyway.
I appreciate the intention, but when we leave these things open they end up getting abused in the other direction.
We should federally mandate shortest-splitline algorithm for redistricting and permanently end all gaming of the system.

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