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The real voter fraud: Republican Gerrymandering


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2017 Sep 28, 9:22am   4,898 views  1 comment

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Corrupt Republicans have completely undermined our republican and made is every bit as corrupt and unrepresentative as the Soviet Union was. They have completely rigged the elections and made voting pointless in key Congressional districts of swing states. This is nothing less than a coup.

https://thinkprogress.org/gop-gerrymandering-e2f0312dd211/
“The outcome was already cooked in, if you will, because of the way the districts were drawn,” John McGlennon, a professor of government and public policy at the College of William and Mary and a Democratic politician, told the Associated Press.

[E]xperts say, Republicans generally benefit far more from gerrymandering than Democrats, since they hold control of the majority of state legislatures and governors’ mansions.



http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/07/19/gerrymandering-republicans-redmap
“The Democrats lose the Pennsylvania House. They lose the governor's race that year, and they do not have a seat at the table when it comes to redistricting. So the maps that the Republicans draw are water-tight. And they hold up in 2012.”

“The Republicans spent $30 million on this and they were able to build themselves a firewall, a full Chamber of Congress for a decade, for less than the price of a losing Senate race in a small state.”

“Yes. The first piece of what the Republicans do with the gerrymander essentially happens in the 1990s, and this is when they use the Voting Rights Act to create majority-minority seats in Southern states. The only way to do in many of these states is to pack as many Democratic voters as you can into one district. These voters do elect African-Americans to Congress, and what you see, starting in mid-1990s is the highest level of African-American representation in Congress of anytime since Reconstruction. But it also has another impact. It turns all of the other neighboring districts more Republican.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/the-great-gerrymander-of-2012.html?pagewanted=all
In North Carolina, where the two-party House vote was 51 percent Democratic, 49 percent Republican, the average simulated delegation was seven Democrats and six Republicans. The actual outcome? Four Democrats, nine Republicans — a split that occurred in less than 1 percent of simulations. If districts were drawn fairly, this lopsided discrepancy would hardly ever occur.


https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900000072/ap-analysis-shows-how-gerrymandering-benefited-gop-in-2016.html
The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage designed to detect potential political gerrymandering.

The analysis found four times as many states with Republican-skewed state House or Assembly districts than Democratic ones. Among the two dozen most populated states that determine the vast majority of Congress, there were nearly three times as many with Republican-tilted U.S. House districts.

Traditional battlegrounds such as Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Virginia were among those with significant Republican advantages in their U.S. or state House races. All had districts drawn by Republicans after the last Census in 2010.

Measuring the effect of gerrymandering (Associated Press)
https://media.deseretdigital.com/file/216a300584


With elections this rigged, the United States of America cannot honestly be described as a republic, nonetheless a democracy. It is essentially the same single-party system with fake elections that the Soviet Union was. And Republicans are entirely responsible for that. The only real election fraud is committed by Republicans.

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1   Dan8267   2017 Sep 28, 10:52am  

jazz_music says
This is how far Republicans go to assure victory, so treason to secure the presidency is certainly nothing new and then the matter gets dropped from prosecution for reasons which never really get clarified.


The price of gerrymandering should be
1. Banishment from all government positions including elected office.
2. Seizure of all wealth of those who commit gerrymandering as well as those funding them.
3. Immediate and unconditional repeal of all legislation passed by votes from officials benefiting from gerrymandered districts.

Do this and no one will try to gerrymander as the risk and consequences would be too high. There's a reason we have laws. They deter acts of harming people.

In fact, we should just get rid of congressional districts and the electoral college altogether. They were never a good idea. They were always motivated by corruption.

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