Originally posted by oxmixmudd
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I am glad we can at least agree there. Voting should be 1 person, 1 vote. Race, political persuasion, religion, No element of who a person is should change the effect of that person's vote. If 500 people vote in an election, then their 500 votes should count the exact same amount in the outcome of that election regardless of whether they are white, hispanic, black, Christian, Muslim, or atheist, male of female.
Gerrymandering violates that basic principle. And ANYTHING that violates that principle becomes just one more way racist people can underhandedly restrict the effect of a minority race's vote while hiding behind some other 'non-racist' excuse, just like happened with literacy tests.
And quite simply it should be illegal.
Now - to amplify that point. There is hard drive data that shows that in NC the gerrymandering that happened there was NOT based on 'political' data, but RACIAL data. And proof was revealed in 2017.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north...b0b08cf7eb18fb
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Jim
Gerrymandering violates that basic principle. And ANYTHING that violates that principle becomes just one more way racist people can underhandedly restrict the effect of a minority race's vote while hiding behind some other 'non-racist' excuse, just like happened with literacy tests.
And quite simply it should be illegal.
Now - to amplify that point. There is hard drive data that shows that in NC the gerrymandering that happened there was NOT based on 'political' data, but RACIAL data. And proof was revealed in 2017.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north...b0b08cf7eb18fb
and
Jim
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