Gerrymandering

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Gerrymandering

Postby sparrow » Sun Nov 14, 2021 8:37 am

How is this legal? It's wide open racism and everyone knows it.
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Re: Gerrymandering

Postby Kurt » Sun Nov 14, 2021 4:11 pm

sparrow wrote:How is this legal? It's wide open racism and everyone knows it.


I used to run the systems that Gerrymandered for New York state.

3 of my bosses went to jail on unrelated corruption charges but basically the Supreme court made it so voting districts can "consider race" but not have it be the sole reason for creatibg a district.
As you can see they took that small amount of permissiveness and ran with it.
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Re: Gerrymandering

Postby sparrow » Mon Nov 15, 2021 8:16 am

^Imagine a supreme court coming up with that, I mean, given the history.
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Re: Gerrymandering

Postby sparrow » Wed Nov 17, 2021 12:59 am

I really should have quoted this above.
Kurt wrote: basically the Supreme court made it so voting districts can "consider race" but not have it be the sole reason for creating a district.


As you can see they took that small amount of permissiveness and ran with it.


Somebody really should legislate a law or something here,

N'est-ce pas?
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