Correct, they draw crazy maps that try to put as many minorities as possible in as few districts as possible so their votes while concentrated and maybe get a seat or two, prevent getting many more seats that their votes and locations would warrant.
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.
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.
Correct, they draw crazy maps that try to put as many minorities as possible in as few districts as possible so their votes while concentrated and maybe get a seat or two, prevent getting many more seats that their votes and locations would warrant.
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.
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.
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.