Posted on 11/13/2021 6:56:39 AM PST by cotton1706
It’s official. The next generation of Utah’s congressional district boundaries has been set for the next 10 years.
As expected, Gov. Spencer Cox on Friday signed off on the new congressional map approved by the Republican-controlled Utah Legislature in a special session earlier this week.
Cox’s signature on HB2004 finalizes the map that splits Salt Lake County, the state’s most populous, into four congressional districts — a map that Republican lawmakers drafted while largely ignoring a different set of maps drawn by the Independent Redistricting Commission.
The map slices Utah’s capital, the Democratic stronghold of Salt Lake City, and dissects areas like Sugar House, Millcreek, Murray and Holladay into four congressional districts. Other burgeoning Democratic areas like Sandy and Draper were lumped into the same district as conservative Utah County’s Provo, as well as Vernal, in the far eastern corner of the state, and Moab, in the far southeast corner.
The Princeton Gerrymandering Project calls that strategy “cracking,” or breaking up an area to deprive it of political power. The group’s redistricting report card gave the Legislature’s congressional map a zero for partisan fairness, noting all four of its boundaries are heavily weighted toward Republicans.
“The ‘cracking’ of Salt Lake City eliminates political competition and divides a major community,” the Princeton Gerrymandering Project said in an open memo.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseret.com ...
Densil Dense here, I’m not sure what your point is about.
No apology necessary. Political hardball.
These “bipartisan” watchdog groups only become alarmed when Republicans draw the districts.
Nothing Democrats haven’t done for decades.
Liberals are moving into Utah because Republicans, however pathetic in general, are better at creating jobs. If the law made sense then liberals would be denied entry in the first place
Elections have consequences: Barack Hussein Odumbo
Yes, but this one is “controversial”, don’t cha know.
When I saw that word in the headline, I knew it could only be good.
A rare place where Republicans actually exercise their muscle and exercise it hard. Same thing going down in Texas and Florida
Equal population, contiguous, compact, and NOT DRAWN BY DUMB ASS HUMANS!
Random start selected by a dart thrown by the dominant party leader.
Free Open-Source (FOS)software. Note that Linux is FOS and over the years very few hacks and have quickly been detected, unlike some well-known proprietary software.
Or voting software.
A couple of redistricting programs are out there and you can have fun with them at home.
Here is the first I found that met my view:
Propeller hat not required but may be helpful.
In Ohio, the Rep Establishment is trying to abolish Jim Jordan’s district. Fratricidal.
Dems and reps both arrange congressional districts to their advantage when the hold control in state legislatures. This is a important way to keep legislatures relevant and preserve some states rights.
Mad Max Waters doesn’t even live in her district.... Cause it’s a turd world craphole
Not so much in FL.
A few years ago, the people added a constitutional amendment that prohibits the use of political considerations when designing congressional maps.
Stupid.
Here in the most gerrmandered state in the Union - Maryland - we’d likely have 3 Republican representatives out of 8 if we had fairly-drawn districts.
Dems about to drastically change Nevada districts-—which would guarantee Dem control.....
Andy Harris (R-MD) has a lifetime ACU rating of 94.89% He’s the one that they are targeting.
Stewart (R-UT) and Curtis (R-UT) are just over 83%.
Moore (R-UT) and Owens (R-UT) aren’t rated yet.
I do not know Salt Lake City, Utah much at all.
Can it possibly be that, contrary to the Dims assertions, Salt Lake County is not one holistic community but a large area that it has four areas that regardless of registered political affiliations have more in common with the areas they are now joined with in new districts than they do with each other, and is it not political variables that districts should “represent” but more shared general cultural & social factors???
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