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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSupport a New Federal Law That Has Meaningful Redistricting Reform to Prevent Gerrymandering
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/support-new-federal-law-has-meaningful-redistricting-reform-prevent-gerrymandering/Jsh2kpVsIn 2012, Democrats candidates for the House of Representatives got two million more votes than the Republican candidates. However, Democrats got less than fifty percent of the seats. This is due to a democratically-dangerous process called gerrymandering. Republicans and Democrats have both tried to destroy each other by ramming their members into tiny little compact congressional districts. Republicans have done this in states like Pennsylvania and Democrats have done it in states like Illinois. We, the undersigned, call on the Obama Administration to call for and advocate for redistricting reform to represent the dangerous gerrymandering that has been going on for too long. We must remove political data from gerrymandering and encourage compact districts when they can be applied.
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Support a New Federal Law That Has Meaningful Redistricting Reform to Prevent Gerrymandering (Original Post)
meow2u3
Mar 2013
OP
An issue which everyone guilty of participating should be ashamed of themselves.
Thinkingabout
Mar 2013
#3
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1. It should be taken out of the hands of politicians.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)4. California did something like that - a citizens commission
who drew up the new map.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)2. ABSOLUTELY! signed, tweeted, facebooked and emailed!!. . . .n/t
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)3. An issue which everyone guilty of participating should be ashamed of themselves.
Our nation has been founded on freedoms and majority rules except those who want to dictate whatever they want. Texas has had the hammer Tom Delay to run his dirty games, even using Homeland Security to track absent legislative members, not a part of their job. I feel sure this is the reason Texas has as many Repubs in Congress, he set this up to save his seat and his dirt fell on top of him.