Gerrymandering backfires in Columbia, Missouri

[KingsGambit]

A business district in Columbia, MO wanted to raise sales taxes within the district to fund improvement. Under law, if no individual citizens voted on it, then business owners within the district would vote on it. They tried to draw the district so that no residents would fall within it; however, when they did, it turns out exactly one voter did live within the district, and this voter opposed the tax increase.

The leader of the business district tried to get the lady to unregister to vote, but she refused. As a result, they went ahead and canceled the vote.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/...0b462cd92.html

[Teallaura]

[Cow Poke]

The gerrymandering thing, like so many things in politics, is out of control.

[KingsGambit]

Personally I think the person who kept trying to get her to unregister to vote should be charged with voter intimidation. She told the county election commissioner she was uncomfortable with the repeated contact.

[One Bad Pig]

The gerrymandering thing, like so many things in politics, is out of control.

Yeah - there's at least one district in Maryland that isn't even contiguous!

[Teallaura]

Personally I think the person who kept trying to get her to unregister to vote should be charged with voter intimidation. She told the county election commissioner she was uncomfortable with the repeated contact.

[Cow Poke]

Yeah - there's at least one district in Maryland that isn't even contiguous!

Yeah, Texas districts have been so convoluted and arbitrary it's ridiculous.

[klaus54]

Why doesn't this archaic concept become a national issue for Congress to deal with?

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[Cow Poke]

It's how most of them got there!

[Teallaura]

It has, more than once. Trouble is the Fox has the key to the henhouse.