Virginian's Will Vote on April 21 to "Restore Fairness"

The Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) ^

[kinsman redeemer]

Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: districts; elections; gerrymandering; spanberger

[kinsman redeemer]

Democratic state legislators have proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow the Virginia General Assembly to redraw congressional districts outside of the normal 10-year redistricting process. This is part of a national Democratic response to Republican-led redistricting efforts in other states, kicked off by President Trump's encouragement to draw maps that are more favorable for the GOP before midterm elections this November. With majorities in the House of Delegates and State Senate, Virginia Democrats would be able to redraw the Commonwealth’s U.S. House of Representatives districts to give their party an advantage. On February 5, party leaders released a proposed map.

[kinsman redeemer]

YOU MUST inform every right-thinking Virginian of this upcoming vote!

The Virginia Assembly is OUT OF THEIR MINDS

[bigdaddy45]

I’m surprised they are even putting it up for a vote

[kinsman redeemer]

The leading nature of the wording here is incredible.

Here is a more honest rendition:

Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the Democrat Party-Controlled General Assembly to temporarily design biased, gerrymandered congressional districts to prevent a fair election this Fall and push back against the Trump agenda ("Orange is bad"), then if we succeed in thwarting the Republican Party and maintaining control of the Commonwealth's Executive and Legislative branches, we will redraw Virginia's congressional districts again after the 2030 census - just like our Constitution requires - and permanently make one-party rule the rule rather than the exception?

[Skwor]

Note how it is presented, they need this special privilege to make the maps the way they want but then want to make future legislatures follow the rules they are not following to prevent anyone else from doing what they just did.

Immoral and evil to the core.

[kinsman redeemer]

They have to because the Constitution of the Commonwealth REQUIRES redistricting only after the decennial census.

This is their version of an emergency action.

[stevio]

Maybe the Republican party can spend money on ads for once.

[kinsman redeemer]

Go to the VPAP URL for a “Partisan Lean of Proposed Districts” map of the proposed CDs. They reduce Virginia to only one RED district. ONE!
Pay attention to this!
I’m pretty pissed-off.

[Republican Wildcat]

Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?

So the ballot question is going to be a deliberate lie? I assume it is legal to lie to voters about what they are voting on?

[RightOnTheBorder]

I would think that wording alone would be sufficient to tie this up in court till after the election. Oh wait, that would mean judges applying the laws and standards that once that were, not the new standard of “what helps the rats who put me here.”

[SuperLuminal]

Hmmm...
I wonder who will count the votes...
I wonder if non-citizens will be voting...
I wonder if VA is irrecoverably lost to the American Communist Party...

The eastern communist union now solidly & inclusively extends from MA, VT, and NY to NJ, MD, Delaware, DC, and VA...

IMHO...

[ronniesgal]

what does that even mean?

[Recompennation]

Just remember that
The STEAL is REAL,
Watch what I’m telling you because virginny wrote the book on election thievery and the late tabulation tabulators will close any but all gaps after the polls have closed and the win is all but done.

[Nateman]

It’s a Communist take over. Everything that has happened since the election has been aimed towards holding onto power forever and bleeding the people of Virginia dry. No wonder they are also implementing gun control. Guns may soon be the only way to get rid of these tyrants!

[falcon99]

Interesting definition of “fairness”. But then they are democrats.

[phil00071]

The Washington Post may have a big impact on this vote due to the large numbers of voters in the northern Virginia suburbs. Question for Jeff Bezos. Are you going to allow the Post to endorse the proposal?

[Bob Wills is still the king]

This will undoubtedly pass, which is bad news for Republicans in the state.

I knew there would be a cascade of this nonsense when Texas kicked it off.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Fairness my azz. With the SpamBurger and the little black murderer and baby killer, Jay Jones. You idiots are dreaming.

[kinsman redeemer]

The wording alone SHOULD be a matter for a court.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Washington Post's relentless attacks on George Allen for supposed racism cost him his Senate seat (by a very narrow margin) and made possible the passage of Obamacare.

Currently the Democrats have a 6-5 edge in the House (for Virginia's Congressional districts)--"fairness" will give them a 10-1 edge. That could determine which party has the majority in the House in 2027.