Monday, July 01, 2019

The Intent Of All Gerrymanderers.

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DemocracyVille


Following up on our previous post on the American Supreme's Court recent decision to let a thousand gerrymanders bloom...

The following  is from a letter to the editor penned by Jonathan P. Margolis published Friday in the NY Times:

...Gerrymandering is always intentional, and the intent is to make some citizens’ votes worth less than those of others. As others have said, gerrymandering means that instead of voters choosing their leaders, the leaders choose their voters. To assert that the framers of the Constitution would be comfortable with such a result is to utter a grave historical libel...


Clear enough for everyone?


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And, in case you missed it during your July 1st celebrations, something's happening here...The 'here' in this case being Hong Kong...The SCMP has done a bang up job with live-blogged coverage.



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