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To: nickcarraway
"The word gerrymander (originally written Gerry-mander) was used for the first time in the Boston Gazette on 26 March 1812..."-wiki

NOW we find out its unconstitutional! You would think that someone would have figured this out 200 years ago.

Does this apply to the US as a whole, or are we just fixing republican Florida? Thought so...

32 posted on 07/12/2014 5:37:58 AM PDT by D Rider (Don't give sharp objects to small children)
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To: D Rider

Get rid of districts and go with counties. Takes gerrymandering out of the picture. Also from an electoral voting process it creates firewalls which prevent wide spread voter fraud.

As an example, let’s say Cuyahoga county get 125% of the people voting. Now that extra 25% can make a difference in a general election. If you go with a county system, with each county getting 1 point for being won and the most points in the state getting the electoral votes, two things happen.

1- who cares if Cuyahoga county gets 500% of the electorate? The firewall is put up which will give the winning candidate 1 point towards getting the states electoral votes.

2- All of this voter ID and picture ID is taken off the table because if you want to cheat, you only get 1 point.


33 posted on 07/12/2014 6:20:31 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (GM is dead and Al Queada is alive.)
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