In 2015, Grofman was appointed as a special master to redraw Virginia's congressional districts after US federal judges ruled that the previous districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to pack one district with African-Americans and dilute their influence through the rest of the state.[1] The US Supreme Court declined to intervene, allowing Grofman's maps to be used.
In 2018, Grofman was again appointed as a special master to redraw the districts for Virginia's House of Delegates.
A college professor from Irvine, California has any business redrawing Virginia’s state legislative districts WHY, exactly?
You know you can trust a UC professor to be non-partisan! (Extreme sarcasm.)
What Democrats can’t win by voter fraud, they win in the courts with Democrat appointed judges.
More rule by judicial fiat.
ONE MAN, who doesn’t reside in Virginia, gets to redraw the state’s voting districts? Using what method? If those sections are NOT evenly divided across geography than this is a subversion of state sovereignity and a blatant power grab by democrats.
The order is unconstitutional on its face.
The criminal, leftist democratic machine guaranteeing a blue state for a long time. My vote has been taken away from me and millions of others.
JoMa
Redistricting is a political process, not a Dr. Grofman process. This is an inherent function of the State Legislature, in this case Virginia’s House of Delegates. If the country wants some professor or some “non-partisan” commission, then a Constitutional Amendment is in order.
The fantasy that some unelected twit can craft a district arrangement that does not deliberately favor one or another political party is preposterous. In this case, a Professor. How will that work out? The answer is + seats for the Democrats.
Odd, isn’t it, that these court rulings never favor Republicans?
Virginia is one of the lowest taxed fiscally responsible states in the USA. That is all about to end.
This is how they turn states.
Cautionary tale for the rest.
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 ?