• mozz
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    37 months ago
    1. Gerrymandering for non racial reasons is legal, which the founding fathers would consider 100% grounds for revolution. They’d be surprised and saddened that that wasn’t the instant result.
    2. It’s not gerrymandering, it’s straight-up election fraud. Kicking Democrats off the voter rolls has been a key strategy for quite a while now.

    It’s sort of amazing they get away with it.

    • @GrymEdm
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      27 months ago

      Interesting! To point #1, I looked it up and apparently the legality of partisan gerrymandering (i.e. by likely vote as opposed to race) varies by state. I had thought it was completely illegal. Thanks for fact-checking me.

      • mozz
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        67 months ago

        All good. It’s such a blatant violation of what voting should be that it seems like a no-brainer for it to be illegal. And yet, just like bribing politicians, it’s fuckin legal for some fuckin reason…

        • [email protected]
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          47 months ago

          The reason why bribing politicians is legal is because politicians decide what’s legal or not.