The funny part is where you think Republicans would abide by their own ban, if not outright reverse it, the second they have a chance to reverse power.
it’s pretty easy to put a number to how gerrymandered a region is: ungerrymandered means that if you were to look at all the votes in the state without districts that’s your ideal ratio… if you then add districts and that ratio is different, it’s perhaps gerrymandered
so if the goal is to stop gerrymandering, you get a bunch of states to sign some interstate compact that measures gerrymandering across the country and says any state that’s part of the compact will (perhaps in the next election, perhaps based on projections for the current voting maps based on prior voting behaviour) gerrymander to an equal or greater degree to offset or punish gerrymandering overall… ie you can gerrymander your state but at best it’ll mean nothing when it comes to the ratio of votes
We’ll have to do it more. There’s a reason they could only gerrymander 5 more seats into a state the size of Texas, and that’s because Texas was and is already gerrymandered to shit.
They still don’t want a ban because even after a few high profile Democrat gerrymanders, Republicans still benefit more.
Virginia has had a bipartisan districting commission intended to discourage gerrymandering since 2020. Unfortunately, it’s designed terribly and just passes districting powers to the state Supreme Court.
Exactly that, I have stopped a while ago, I’ll joke with some of the naive ones say I can upset them with one sentence but, tell I mean in jest but I can act just like them, they ask what and I say one simple phrase that works every time loL “all Republicans must die” Then I say I don’t want to be serious about it so…
Their crocodile tears have been delicious.
Totally on board with outlawing this shit entirely, by the way, but also totally over getting punched in the groin by the people who go low.
It’s also a great way of pressuring Republican politicians into actually banning it.
“You don’t like us playing by the rules you wanted? Help us change the rules then!”
They’ll only accept losing the power to gerrymander if it hurts Democrats more than Republicans.
The funny part is where you think Republicans would abide by their own ban, if not outright reverse it, the second they have a chance to reverse power.
that’s an easy solve though…
it’s pretty easy to put a number to how gerrymandered a region is: ungerrymandered means that if you were to look at all the votes in the state without districts that’s your ideal ratio… if you then add districts and that ratio is different, it’s perhaps gerrymandered
so if the goal is to stop gerrymandering, you get a bunch of states to sign some interstate compact that measures gerrymandering across the country and says any state that’s part of the compact will (perhaps in the next election, perhaps based on projections for the current voting maps based on prior voting behaviour) gerrymander to an equal or greater degree to offset or punish gerrymandering overall… ie you can gerrymander your state but at best it’ll mean nothing when it comes to the ratio of votes
We’ll have to do it more. There’s a reason they could only gerrymander 5 more seats into a state the size of Texas, and that’s because Texas was and is already gerrymandered to shit.
They still don’t want a ban because even after a few high profile Democrat gerrymanders, Republicans still benefit more.
Virginia has had a bipartisan districting commission intended to discourage gerrymandering since 2020. Unfortunately, it’s designed terribly and just passes districting powers to the state Supreme Court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistricting_in_Virginia
The US just needs to have PR and stop doing this flawed fptp stuff
Exactly that, I have stopped a while ago, I’ll joke with some of the naive ones say I can upset them with one sentence but, tell I mean in jest but I can act just like them, they ask what and I say one simple phrase that works every time loL “all Republicans must die” Then I say I don’t want to be serious about it so…
You know how MAGA has been full of shit every step of the way, trolling the libs with ragebait? Yeah, let’s do that to them all the way to 2028.
Exactly only Snowflake’s in this country is the GOP group of pedophiles