Republicans are quietly rigging election maps to ensure permanent rule

[BidenPresident]

Whether it’s gerrymandering or voter suppression or attacks on offices that provide needed checks and balances – the states have become widely undemocratic. As I outline in my book Laboratories of Autocracy, the consequences of this anti-democratic movement are only getting worse.

The past decade in Ohio, where I served in recent years as chair of the state Democratic party, shows how bad it can get – and how quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...permanent-rule

[ExpressLane]

GREAT NEWS!!!!

[BidenPresident]

GREAT NEWS!!!!

At least you admit you're an enemy of democracy.

[Earl]

Oh this is rich.

The Democrats steal a presidential election and senatorial seats in Ga. and they are worried about cheating?

Precious.

[BidenPresident]

Oh this is rich.

The Democrats steal a presidential election and senatorial seats in Ga. and they are worried about cheating?

Precious.

you're a lying scumbag

[BidenPresident]

The prime culprits behind all this election rigging are the statehouses themselves – mostly anonymous elected officials who few voters know but who wield far more power than most Americans appreciate. And that includes the power to draw the district lines of both federal and state representatives (ie their own districts), as well as establishing most of the other rules of how elections are run, including how presidential electors are divvied up.

But it all gets worse. Fast-forward to now. Outraged by a decade of rigged elections, citizens in Ohio and other states took action to change the process of how lines are drawn. Some opted for independent districting commissions. In Ohio, more than 70% of the voters amended the Ohio constitution (twice!) to add clear guidelines to curb the type of extreme partisan districting that led to a decade without democracy.

[BattleofHodow]

So quiet that you knew it!?

[Grokmaster]

"ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES" - BARACK OBAMA.

[Stone]

Whether it’s gerrymandering or voter suppression or attacks on offices that provide needed checks and balances – the states have become widely undemocratic. As I outline in my book Laboratories of Autocracy, the consequences of this anti-democratic movement are only getting worse.

The past decade in Ohio, where I served in recent years as chair of the state Democratic party, shows how bad it can get – and how quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...permanent-rule

Ooooohhhh Nooooooo's!!!! Run for the hills everybody!! Its the end of the world as we know it!

[Earl]

you're a lying scumbag

Take a hike, pendejo.

[BidenPresident]

Since they write the rules, they have the ability to hold that risk at bay, through gerrymandering, voter suppression, cracking down on protests, attacking independent courts and officials that get in the way, and other measures – and they are taking all these actions and more across the country right now.

The truth is, if another country were taking all these steps, we’d call it out for what it is – an attack on democracy itself. A descent toward autocracy. But because it’s happening in our own state capitols, we too often treat it with less urgency. That needs to end.

It’s time to go on offense for democracy, at the state level, every year. Beginning now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...permanent-rule

[BidenPresident]

Take a hike, pendejo.

get lost you pussy, go start your own thread

[Grokmaster]

Since they write the rules, they have the ability to hold that risk at bay, through gerrymandering, voter suppression, cracking down on protests, attacking independent courts and officials that get in the way, and other measures – and they are taking all these actions and more across the country right now.

The truth is, if another country were taking all these steps, we’d call it out for what it is – an attack on democracy itself. A descent toward autocracy. But because it’s happening in our own state capitols, we too often treat it with less urgency. That needs to end.

It’s time to go on offense for democracy, at the state level, every year. Beginning now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...permanent-rule

PEOPLE AREN'T BUYING THE LEFT'S BULLSHIT AND LIES ANYMORE...AMERICANS SEE WHAT A CLUSTERFUCK DUNCE-O-CRAT GOVERNANCE HAS BROUGHT ABOUT...IN A MATTER OF MONTHS.

YOU AIN'T DOIN' SHIT , BUT GETTING KICKED TO THE CURB ONE YEAR FROM NOW...

[ExpressLane]

At least you admit you're an enemy of democracy.

Nope they are just changing them back from the maps jerrymandered by the Dems 10 years ago. Happens every census cycle. Elections have consequences. I remember a Democrat congressional district that ran from south Dallas to Waco going down the highway on one side only so as to pick up democrat areas and ending in a Democrat area of Waco about 100 miles away. When the Republicans were finally able to redistrict the area the Democrat Congressman that had represented the area, since its inception, retired. I suspect that some of the Democrats that are retiring from Congress are doing it for the same reason.

[ExpressLane]

Since they write the rules, they have the ability to hold that risk at bay, through gerrymandering, voter suppression, cracking down on protests, attacking independent courts and officials that get in the way, and other measures – and they are taking all these actions and more across the country right now.

The truth is, if another country were taking all these steps, we’d call it out for what it is – an attack on democracy itself. A descent toward autocracy. But because it’s happening in our own state capitols, we too often treat it with less urgency. That needs to end.

It’s time to go on offense for democracy, at the state level, every year. Beginning now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...permanent-rule

Want some cheese to go with your whine?