“In a gerrymandered state like North Carolina, it means representatives are choosing their voters instead of voters choosing their representatives.”
Barr said in an opinion piece published Tuesday by the Courier that the court decided that “basically, we, the voters in North Carolina, have a right to free elections but not to fair ones.”
“That’s some real bullshit,” she wrote.
the video in the article drives the point home as well that here in the US you have the right to vote even if it does not mean anything
Goes hand in hand with our SCOTUS kangaroo court
I feel like Michigan managed to do something right on that accord. In 2018 they passed a citizen-led ballot initiative that amended the state constitution to let a non-partisan committee choose how the districts are drawn up.
I’m given to understand that nobody loves it, but nobody actually hates it, either. Which may be the best possible outcome for such a contentious issue.I thought this was an onion article
