It is not “cheating.” You keep using that word, it doesn’t mean what you think it means.
As for those boards, what people precisely were tired of the legislature doing their rightful duty ? Elites rolling the rubes into believing such a process can be done “independently.” It can’t. There will always be a partisan lean to it. Taking it away from a GOP legislature means getting screwed every time. Some Republicans were pushing the nonsense in California thinking they’d get a “fair shake.” Instead, what was a minority became a super-minority of seats for the GOP.
Come to think of it the “independent redistricting” thing in Cali might have ended up giving the rats a BETTER map than if the legislature drew it. The legislature would have protected all rat incumbents first, even if that meant drawing 1 or 2 fewer seats for them in total. You never would have seen Berman and Sherman put in the same district.
the reason those boards were put in place was because both sides were doing this kind of crap. I know, I was living in California at the time.
When the dems did it, the gop screamed bloody murder, when the gop did it, the dems did the same.
If the good or bad of the same behavior depends on the person or group doing the behaving, then your standards are screwed up. Obviously the gop and dems in California are screwed up. And it seems they are nationwide as well.
I don’t recall using the word “cheating” except to describe the folks who did this - and that word applies to the general type, not to their activity here.
Doing this is indefensible. And I KNOW the same slimes who drew this map will scream bloody murder if and when the dems do the same in return.