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CMUHoo

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Not only that, but it allows for perpetual gerrymandering of federal office


Under this model, red legislatures in purple states could ensure that their chosen candidates get the electoral votes each year. Then they can re-gerrymander themselves each decade to keep power and repeat the process all over again. You could literally have a state that becomes progressively more blue for a generation or more remain red for the purposes of Senate and Presidential races in perpetuity if the court says this is ok.

Virginia is a good example. It would be very easy to gerrymander the Virginia legislature to a healthy majority of red seats even though the state has continuously voted for Democrats in the Senate and Presidency since 2006. They could replace Warner and Kaine with whoever they wanted and assign the electoral votes to the GOP nominee in 2024. Then in 2030 they could refortify their seats to do it again.

(In response to this post by Oregon Hoo)

Posted: 06/30/2022 at 5:16PM



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