Republicans might redraw congressional maps in Ohio and Texas to try to protect narrow House majority
Republicans might redraw congressional maps in Ohio and Texas to try to protect narrow House majority
Facing the possibility of losing control of the U.S. House next year, national Republicans are pushing two GOP-led states are weighing aggressively redrawing their congressional districts and pushing several longtime Democratic lawmakers out of their seats.
Also known as cheating.
It's only cheating if the judges you appointed and/or bribed say it is.
A few times it went up to the Supreme court and back and they still didn't fix it as required.
Alamabama? Missississippi?? One of those places.
If redrawn by an impartial 3rd party, then, hey, go for it.
But obviously that's not what's happening, or going to happen.
Now now it’s only cheating if the side that did the cheating loses then it’s cheating.
Pretty soon they’re gonna need some level 4 plates to protect their narrow house majority
"Might". Nah, they just actually will.
Ohio has actually been required to redraw maps for 8 years now. After the 2016 election, it was found that our maps were too heavily biased by the OH Supreme Court, and they ordered a committee to redraw it. The committee is, of course, practically only staffed by GOPers, and they so far have submitted 8 maps that I know of. At least two of them were literally the same as the map that was found illegal, and the rest of them were found to not meet criteria either. They've been held in contempt multiple times but DeWine and friends seem not to really want to do anything about that.
The maps that are already illegal?
This ONLY Works because Republicans ALWAYS vote in Their Best Interests and NEVER EVER EVER for the Person LITERALLY CAMPAIGNING ON RUINING THEIR LIVES!
What pisses me off about this is states that have dem majorities should be doing the exact same shit. Let them both suck so hard the courts have to demand non-party commission to set these boundaries. Why the hell do the Dems have to fight with a hand tied behind their back?
They do, just repubs do it way way more.
Interstate compact. Don't give up gerrymandered districts until a supermajority of states agree to independently drawn or algorithmic districts.
Why don't you recount now that you've kicked out or scared off a bunch of the immigrants who made those numbers work for you, Texas?
cries in Tennessee
Gotta draw up some bull shitty districts so you can stay in power.
gerrymandering is such bull shit.
There will never be another meaningful election in the United States, ever again. It will be like Russia, the Correct Party always wins.