Reversing decades of precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in a Texas case that different minority groups cannot jointly claim that their votes have been diluted.
Voting is most definitely not a sham; there are real issues with gerrymandering, but the reality is that power is in fact awarded in the US on the basis of who wins elections.
The latest round of redistricting in Galveston County, a community of 350,000 people, redrew a district in which Black and Hispanic voters together had made up a majority of voters. The redrawn boundaries reduced their combined share of the district’s electorate to 38 percent.
right there in the article
leaders rigged the election to get elected and to keep holding power
voting is a sham
and both parties participate in different ways to keep people from voting
And yes, unilateral disarmament is a dumb idea — the Democrats ended gerrymandering in a few states (eg: California) but aren’t going to end it nationally except as part of a law to do it for the whole country. Which the Republicans have blocked at the federal level.
Voting is most definitely not a sham; there are real issues with gerrymandering, but the reality is that power is in fact awarded in the US on the basis of who wins elections.
right there in the article
leaders rigged the election to get elected and to keep holding power
voting is a sham
and both parties participate in different ways to keep people from voting
That’s called gerymandering.
And yes, unilateral disarmament is a dumb idea — the Democrats ended gerrymandering in a few states (eg: California) but aren’t going to end it nationally except as part of a law to do it for the whole country. Which the Republicans have blocked at the federal level.
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Removed for misinformation. Democrats are absolutely not in the business of restricting voting access. That is solely a Republican issue.
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Removed for misinformation and temp banned. Democrats DO NOT restrict voting access.
This doesn’t come across as a good-faith argument. Numerous claims in it are simply false.