HAHA SUCK MY NUTS KEN PAXTON

And Dems did it legally in each case. Fuck off, Ken!

Just get proportional representation for fucks sake.

The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas’s Republican-controlled legislature to redraw that state’s congressional maps in a bid to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers in the November midterm elections.

I guess that it looks like the the early gerrymandering effort may, when one includes the backlash, have wound up on the net reducing the number of seats that Republican legislators hold in the House relative to Democrats, then.

Probably would have been better for the Trump administration to have left well enough alone.

Dems would not be redistricting if the MAGAs hasn't tried it first, but that shows an improvement. In the past, Dems wouldn't have tried redistricting, even if MAGA had succeeded in doing it, because it wouldn't have been "fair."

This time, they saw MAGA trying to grab an advantage, so the Dems did it too, except they did it right, so it passed by the courts, while the MAGA attempts didn't.

We are finally seeing the Dems fighting back, and fighting back smart, which is something MAGA will NEVER be able to compete with. We need the Dems to play a lot more of that Hard Ball.

Glad to hear that some voters have some common sense

It was too fucking close, too. I'm glad it passed.

I'm also happy that almost all of Hampton Roads was very much on the YES side. Poquoson went very NO and York went somewhat NO, but even James City County and even Charles City County went YES, although James City County was the smallest margin in the entire state.

Newport News where I live was solidly YES. I'm a mod in the subreddit - the last thing I'm doing with reddit - and we got brigaded to hell from people outside the community in three threads about the vote. It was crazy.

Bills have been brought up several times to make district mapping non-partisan, and/or by 3rd party independent agencies. Usually Dems bring them up and republicans vote them down or sabotage them in any way they can.

I found it really odd that the legislature are able to gerrymander in the first place. Why isn't this process in control of an independent board? Some of the gerrymandered district maps are laughably corrupt.

Now if only NC could figure out how to unfuck the maps.

Americans, your voting system is from deep inside the ass. Get your shit right, don’t intervene in the other countries affairs until that. I don’t want to see or hear any news from USA before that.