>> The only reason that this is possible in Virginia is because of all the residents who get some kind of government check.
Is the entire legislature of VA elected as at-large candidates or does each county/district elect their own representative?
Members of the VA General Assembly are elected locally from the local legislative districts: VA Senate and the VA House of Delegates.
The only reason this is possible in Virginia is because a bunch of conservative voters decided to stay home or at work last November and did not vote.
So they get what they deserve. Now it will take much more effort to fix than if they had voted the first time.
Members of the Assembly and the Senate are elected by district. In recent years there has been a large population increase in Northern Virginia, driven by vast expansion of DC (government employees, contractors, lobbyists, people servicing all these), plus masses of government retirees, and immigrants.
90% (wild guess) of these settlers are Dems, and large percentages do indeed derive their living from government. High density areas are inherently more efficient for rounding up votes, broadcasting ads for candidates and issues, cheating, etc. The state’s Republican Party is moribund, and shows little fire for figuring out how to campaign in rural areas where R’s dominate. Hopefully this 2ndA crisis will energize conservatives, but there needs to be organization and candidate development to take advantage of it.
This last election was run on maps drawn by a professor from UC Irvine.
I’m sure he was fair..../s
We have been inundated with illegal aliens and people from communist states.
McAwful institutionalized vote fraud.
I think that the typical state legislature is made up of representatives elected in specific districts...just as are member of the US House of Representatives.
The point I was trying to make is that Virgina has a huge number of both government employees and welfare parasites,both of whom are strongly inclined to vote Rat.