Oh no. anyway, here's a map of Illinois' congressional districts.
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What's funny is if you did split up 12 and 15, the GOP would likely lose a seat. 15 is mostly empty land and 12 includes east St lewis and Springfield. Give any of those cities to the empty land and suddenly we'd have a lot of upset corn being represented by a Democrat.
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Reminds me of Kansas..
Aportionment voting. As close to possible make sure the voting for a party gets appropriate representation then vote in who by primary. If this is a 100 seat senate and the state goes 48%red 51% blue and 1 % green each color holds a primary after the election to choose who will represent this platform that got them elected. This creates unity inside a party on issues in which everyone should campaign on and if you aren't striving to enact the platform it is more seen and you are less likely to be voted in in the primary next time. This creates more parties as if you have a different platform what is the point being in the same party. You still have to play smart like the green party should work green if they have the same agenda that way people don't get upended but generally this is better
Texas has always been a lost cause. If you’re left and in Texas your choice is to leave.
But they used to have to draw their districts in a way that wouldn't get thrown out by the courts. Now they can do whatever they want. There are still a few judges left that will rule against them, but not for long as more and more are replaced by MAGAts. In the meantime, they can still go ahead and do it now because by the time the issue works its way through the legal system the 2026 midterms will have happened and they'll have cemented control.
Texas is a lost cause.
I think you missed my point. Their being a lost cause doesn't mean we don't have to care about what they do. Their illegal gerrymandering affects all of us by cementing a republican majority in the US Congress.
I get your point. But it’s not illegal. The only way it would be illegal is if it was racially motivated, and that won’t ever be proven.
Texas won’t be stopped. The right wing has all but won. No one is doing anything about it and they’ll keep taking until we push back—which at this point I think is never.
The only reason this story is getting as much national attention is because of the Texas State House members literally doing something about it. And newsom and hochul and pritzker, all doing something about it
We should stop celebrating “doing something” and only celebrate “successfully preventing”
Thanks for the info that it's totally legal, I didn't realize that. So I guess the cases I've heard about where district boundaries were found illegal by a court must have been based solely on the racial discrimination aspect for violating a civil rights law or something (maybe the voting rights law that SCOTUS has been gutting step by step?)
I know there has always been plenty of gerrymandering, but there always seemed to be a limit to how far they went with it, so I stupidly thought there was some actual law limiting it in some way.
I live in CD4, and it's already just as ridiculous. A massive swath of rural voters to drown out relatively diverse parts of Plano, TX.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_4th_congressional_district
what fucking idiotic ideas. why, I am curious, are districts not drawn by immutable things like latitude and longitude?
That doesn't change much, it's possible to define this district that way.
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Yes
I wonder if an AI system could feasibility generate fair, compact, impartial districts given appropriate prompts - if those prompts were agreed upon by all parties, and the AI and associated data gathering administered by a 3rd party non-profit.
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