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To: supercat
"Unfortunately, we won't really have that power as long as Gerrymandering is allowed"

You mean "until the Districts are aligned in a way that we favor".

We have the power today. The people, however, choose not to exercise that power, and that frustrates you. So you turn to some bastardized reading of the U.S. Constitution and look for an activist court to do your bidding.

Hey, fine ... the liberals do it, why can't we? Right?

260 posted on 11/06/2005 7:29:34 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
You mean "until the Districts are aligned in a way that we favor".

Some Gerrymanders favor Democrats; others favor Republicans. Nearly all, however, favor incumbents of BOTH parties (indeed, in a Gerrymandered map drawn by Democrats, the Republican incumbents are likely to be nearly unbeatable, and vice versa).

Personally, I'd favor passing some mathematically-defined rules to severely curtail Gerrymandering. My preferred proposal would be for the government to publish the necessary census data in machine-readable format and then invite any and all interested persons to submit district mappings in some specified machine-readable format. The submitted mapping which has the lowest "Gerrymander Quotient" (using some pre-defined formula) would then be used for the next decade.

343 posted on 11/06/2005 11:44:13 AM PST by supercat (Don't fix blame--FIX THE PROBLEM.)
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