Posted on 02/18/2019 7:53:42 AM PST by csvset
This is how they turn states.
Cautionary tale for the rest.
I have no problem using an algorithm based analysis to inform the process. But, I am not ready to turn over what is a political process to the machines. For the same reason, courts need to stay out of the way. The States have the responsibility to construct districts and through the Legislature is the way that they should do it.
...ordered the state to adopt the map created by University of California-Irvine political science professor Bernard Grofman. The map could boost Democrats’ chances of taking control of the House later this year by tilting six GOP-held districts toward Democrats and imperiling the re-election campaigns of two top Republicans. Republicans had called Grofman’s map “legally indefensible,” saying it “attempts to give Democrats an advantage at every turn.”
Of course the two Demagogic Party judges didn't see it that way.
agree. i would think some one in the state of VA should redraw districts. No one outside the state having the issue should have any say in any way about it.
To me accepting out of state help as big as this (redrawing voting districts) is election interference at least.
“Democrats sure are waging an all-fronts war to seize control”
We saw what happened in CA with vote harvesting. There will never be another Rep voted in in CA. The rest of the country is watching. Any State that currently has a Demoncrat majority will be “legalizing” vote harvesting before the 2020 elections. Between that and the motor-voter-illegal voting scam, the Pubbies don’t stand a chance. They won’t even need the trunks full of “uncounted ballots”.
They can’t win on the issues, so they’ve got to lie, cheat, and steal. It’s all they’ve got.
Federal tyrants in robes impose Demonrat theft of VA House.
Virginia had a California professor doing the redistricting? Couldn’t they find a college professor from Hillsdale?
“Nothing in the record suggests that Dr. Grofman acted with animus toward any incumbents, or toward any party,” the judges wrote. “We credit Dr. Grofman’s contention that he constructed his proposals without regard to partisan outcome in the non-challenged districts, and that he treated all incumbents equally.”
COULD THIS BE WHY CHICAGOANS ARE SEEING RATS ?
The city of Chicago is composed of 50 wards which average out to around 72 precincts of about 350 or more voters in each precinct. Many are former villages incorprated into the city as the city grew. . A Chicago Alderman is in effect a mini mayor. They have input into who gets city services and now it’s how those services are being administered seem to be running into who’s ward is it ?.
What’s not being looked at is how Chicago wards have been redistricted. Chicago has had neighborhoods divided to create “Hispanic”residential sections going to Hispanic aldermanic and congressional (Gutierez) candidates and blacks going to black candidates.Which apparently is the result of the turnover in the Freddie and Fanny mortgage collapse. As stable integrated areas changed into being unstable because of constant dwelling turnover.had the effect of breaking up a contiguous geographic continuity and community identity. Because the wards affected which are really like small towns have had sections broken up into areas where if a problem arises in a given section of street which has one way traffic only. It may be two way a block down because it’s in a different ward. The same applies to all other city services including zoning and sanitation where garbage collection routes are organized by ward boundaries,
Alderman Burke who is under federal charges for corruption ward is an example. Burke’s ward ,14th, was originally known as “Back of The Yards” Once the home of the famous Chicago Stock Yards where most food processors along with employee demographics have since relocated. It was a compact area almost 15 plus city blocks square area composed mostly of single and 2 story frame and brick family dwellings mixed with scattered brick apartment units. Because of the construction, insurance rates varied and became known as the condemned as “redlining”. When the democrats also warily supported by the Bush 2 administration came up with the no 20% down mortgage removed. Areas in the ward dramatically changed in demographics. Many of those dwellings sold under those conditions went into disrepair or default.
Originally his ward headquarters and palace was on 51st street just west of Damen Avenue. Today’s palace is just off of Pulaski Road near the Madam Curie high school just off of Archer Avenue miles away.
His ward now consists of areas carved from the 12th and 23rd wards miles from the original 14th That In a former section of the 23rd ward now the 14th ward in the Midway airport area, 2 patrons in a local bar along Archer avenue were heard complaining about rats in their garbage. They felt it was because of the delay in garbage collection. Also heard the same beef about street snow removal. It has also played hell on zoning and because of the disruption of jurisdictions with the administration of city services such as streets and sanitation which the alderman (salary $120.000 plus allocations on local projects) do oversee and have input over..
By employing this concept of remapping are residents are being denied the representation they should have ?
Nicely said. Here if FL, voters passed a law that so much as pulled the legislature from drawing district lines whenever a Liberal complained . . . so future lines will be drawn by the FL supreme court.
We are giving away our sovereignty and with it freedom and most people don’t know or care.
Redistricting didn’t help, but Brat was invisible during his reelection. I know - I live in his district and he was never here. Not even at his local office. I like the guy, but campaigning is not his forte. He didn’t even campaign when he beat Cantor, who was such an awful House Rep that all a candidate needed to do was oppose him.
I was redistricted out of district so it was redistricting.
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