Angry Black Woman
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This is a major part of the problem we need to fix with voting. This is how states end up with representation that does not reflect who they are. Picking your voters needs to turn into those voters rejecting the GOP.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/gerrymandering-explained
07:39 AM - Mar 16, 2023
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junerose32
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In response to Angry Black Woman.
~6 years ago I heard a brilliant statistician on NPR describing the formula that she and her colleagues developed to fairly assign voting districts,no partisanship involved. Of course it has never been adopted as parties in power always seek to hold onto it by deciding who votes. Power corrupts.
08:06 AM - Mar 16, 2023
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Angry Black Woman
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It most definitely corrupts. We have gotten ourselves so deep down the rabbit hole, I am not sure what it will take to get us out of it.

Simply telling people to #vote when systems like this are in place is a huge part of why people don't want to vote in the first place.
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08:42 AM - Mar 16, 2023
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junerose32
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Agreed! It's like being cast against our will in a bad movie. A nightmare movie. I always wondered growing up how Hitler and his ilk were VOTED in. Now I know.
09:26 AM - Mar 16, 2023
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Angry Black Woman
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I am surrounded by the memories of what hitler dead every single day. From the Stolpersteine (tripping stones) that are everywhere to the bullet holes that still remain in the buildings that were bombed. I have been to the sites where the bodies were burned. That is not something you come back from.
10:47 AM - Mar 16, 2023
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