But this story is based on leaked emails. Oooooh.
January 30, 2012
Congressman Allen West is facing gerrymandering problems in Florida. Is your state trying to redistrict voter outcomes too?
If you think Congress Allen West is having redistricting problems you should take at look at your own Congressional District.
I live in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District…soon to be District 2 or it might remain as District 8 depending which way the flatulence blows.
Redistricting looks to balance a district to make it competitive for the Republican or Democratic candidates. In addition to the balanced approach districts are also realigned for a desired political party outcome.
But wait! The Democratic, Republican and all other partys are NOT part of the government…they just run it. So why are State Governments redistricting in favor of any political party?
There are nine congressional districts in Arizona and currently 3,138,327 register voters.
The number of registered voter and population for each of the nine districts varies from a high of 518,240 in Congressional 6 to a low of 203,359 in District 2. At a ratio of 1:2.55, District 2 clearly has the best Congressperson to voter and Congressperson to citizen ratios than any other county.
By using Arizona Congressional District 2 as the baseline, all of the voters outside of AZCD2 have been granted diminished political power and representation.