DeSantis for the win
- Thread starter Tsing Tao
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You said this before several times as well. So I'll answer you the same way there, too.
Get some new content, clown.
I am against gerrymandering in every state... whether it is done by Democrats or Republicans. Especially now that modern GIS software allows partisan district mapping which creates biased districts with surgical precision to pre-determine election results.
The people are effectively not choosing their candidate. The party is effectively pre-determining the election results (by party) in many of the biased election maps.
Every state should require an independent commission to be appointed to determine election district maps.
Right, so you say. But is it gerrymandering when a party restores logic to the voting area from a previously messed up district?
That never happens --- if a other party comes into power they just gerrymander the districts in the opposite direction. North Carolina is a great example of this.
You should take a look at the redistricting that just occurred. Its not like its being made out to be. This site shows all the supporting data.
https://www.floridaredistricting.gov/
Thanks for the link.
There are some reasonable points to be made about the traditional black districts which were created previously (under court decisions). These districts are effectively a gerrymander. However the steps DeSantis has taken in his re-alignment are not to make things fair -- his purpose is the create as many Republican seats in the Florida as possible. To do so DeSantis had to eliminate these black districts which stood in the way of his gerrymander.
Most likely. All I'm saying is that going to a district map that is based on population, new census data, etc and undoes the stupidity of maps like the one posted above makes things better - no matter which party does it.