Wtf is this shi

Brilliant strategy by a computor. we have to wait till 2020 before all that can be undone. only in america je pense

Only < 50% of people eligible to vote actually vote, so the district boundaries aren't quite as stacked as people assume. If everyone who could vote did vote, then the results would differ significantly from the assumptions that went into the Gerrymandering. So let's get atypical voters to vote.

Do away with districts altogether, and go to a system of strict proportional representation. A party wins a certain percentage of the vote, they get a certain percentage of legislative seats. No gerrymandering possible.

Yes, it’s created extremes, by creating unnatural boundaries based on their political, economic or social status. Example: herd consistent Democrat voters into a contorted district. During the (our) US primary, when each party sorts out it’s final candidate, the most active (angry) extremists often get their way because they put out the effort - and they vote! Look at voter turnout during primaries or ‘off presidential’ years...

So we end up with candidates chosen by party Extremists. In office, they won’t compromise or they’ll ‘lose their base,’ thus their next election. It works the same for presidential candidates… We turn to the courts ..but who appointed the judges? - the side for who ‘Gerrymandering’ worked! We beg the office holders - nothing, it’s how they got there! ...while the Extremes become more so.. Yes, it’s fucked up, perhaps the downfall of our democracy, definitely the root of gridlock, and no doubt the reason we’ve the worst president in US history … folks are pissed off, want change - but have no idea how to make that change happen..

Tragically, they had a chance… She would have appointed a supreme court justice willing to visit this issue.. As well as may more. The nation takes two steps forward -- then a flying leap back. ...handing the entire government over to the republican party.. National Suicide ~

I live in a state with more registered democrats than republicans. Judgeships, gubernatorial races, Senators, Attorneys General, positions elected by the whole state go to Democrats about 7 out of 10 times. Although that may be congressional seats and the General assembly seats are entirely different. 8 of the last 13 congressional seats went to republicans, the general assembly has far more republicans in the house and senate than democrats, an overwhelming amount of people voted for democrats in the last elections but the majority of congressional reps are republicans. It's because they gerrymandered the hell out of this state 2010. We have districts that look like dragon flies and other things and which ignore the places they traditionally occupied and a bunch more weird shapes. Every election cycle democrats draw more votes (54% in 2016) without managing to win elections and it's all because of Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering is not at all new. Groups in power have always tried to stack the deck to maintain their grip. The problem is that today's Republicans have become both more adept and more brazen about it!

Gerrymandering+voter suppression+flood of dark money in politics+right wing propaganda+Russian interference=our current orange-hued shitstorm.

I'll take "extremely fucked up" for 300,Alex.

Well, hitler was not german so... go ahead.

What is more is that Americans have been putting up with it for over a century and do nothing to end it, how fuck up is that?