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To: ilovesarah2012
Gerrymandering is just voter fraud with a fancy name. Just vote by counties.

There are approximately 3000+ organized counties or county equivalents in the US. Do you think we should have 3000 representatives in the House?

You can't organize federal election by county. The population is not distributed even close to even in them. For example, Democrats in dense urban areas, for example, would simply create 100 new counties to increase their total number of representatives. Republicans in rural areas could break up their big counties with low populations into small counties with even lower population in order to increase their vote totals.

What you propose doesn't even make sense.

17 posted on 11/20/2012 8:34:04 AM PST by Longbow1969
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To: Longbow1969

http://caef.us/election-fraud-through-gerrymandering/

Election fraud through gerrymandering

http://realneo.us/content/gerrymandered-election-districts-voters-dont-choose-their-politicians-politicians-choose-the

“In gerrymandered election districts, the voters don’t choose their politicians - the politicians choose their voters!”


24 posted on 11/20/2012 8:58:42 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Longbow1969
There are approximately 3000+ organized counties or county equivalents in the US. Do you think we should have 3000 representatives in the House?

Yeah. If anything, we're under-represented. As for representation by counties, that's a straw dog. We do need less opportunity for gerrymandering. Smaller districts are needful. But still proportionate. Non-citizens should not count to pad the rolls for districting.

35 posted on 11/20/2012 10:39:11 AM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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