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Originally Posted by Skybird

Gerrymandering. An image says more than a thousand words. Three images, in this case.


https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/03/p...red/index.html


Strange how these and many other - considered "legal" - ways of manipulating election outcomes still are tolerated.

California had a real problem with gerrymandering in its history and continued until 2008 when a State Proposition was passed creating a Commission (California Citizens Redistricting Commission) to redraw the Congressional district following the 2010 US Census. Part of the push for the Commission's creation was complaints from the CA-GOP over allegations of CA-DEMs manipulating the redraw process:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califo...ing_Commission


The belief of CA-GOP members was a new, non-partisan redraw committee would break the CA-DEMs stranglehold on the political life of CA, making it easier to get CA-GOP candidates elected. Interestingly, it was the Far Right CA-GOP factions who expressed the most concerns about using a non-partisan Commission for the redraw; the theory behind their concerns was attributed to their desire to be able to, likewise as the CA-DEMs prior to the Commission, manipulate district lines, if the CA-GOP ever took back control of the CA State government. The Commission redrew the district maps and, instead of gaining new seats, the CA-GOP wound up losing more seats than before...










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