To Win.

that has to pay to get it serviced.

(off-topic, but it jumped out of my mind and I had to voice it...)

the pukes' shitty agenda.

By giving them Representatives that the majority may not agree with, by simply drawing squiggly lines on a map... There's going to be a lot of "Independents" after the 2016 election and it may be just a little more difficult than planned?

and how little pushback there has been. It's insidious, evil and it absolutely astounding that even the potential for this can exist in a mature democracy.

Enjoyed this article. This article made me think of what an old auditor told me one time "figures don't lie, but liars can figure".

The math redrawn models must be the basis for the Court appointed Special Master.

Fantastic. Finally, those that cheat others out of an equal vote should lose their life right for any public office and VOTE.

pRezident dRumpf must go.

Obama returns to politics with redistricting group fundraiser - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/09/obama-redistricting-fundraiser-240343
Jul 9, 2017 - Barack Obama will make the first official political move of his post-presidency on Thursday, headlining a private fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee at a private home in Washington. ... Holder has kept in touch with him about the NDRC plans, and briefed him ...




https://democraticredistricting.com/

We’re feeling it too. That feeling that our political system is unfair, and our votes don’t count the way they should. The gerrymandering of congressional and legislative districts locks in a Republican majority and locks out the voters. We have a plan to make the system fair and get democracy working again—and we need your help to do it.

finally a D group attacks the State/local Republican gerrymandering with a vengeance, in the Federal Courts.

The courts are where real change happens for D Voters! NC, Virginia, Nevada, Texas seems to be their first focus.

https://democraticredistricting.com/

(NDRC), announced a $25,000 investment in the Fair Courts campaign to fight partisan attempts to rig the judicial system in North Carolina.

NDRC Invests in Effort to Fight Judicial Gerrymandering in North Carolina

January 10, 2018



Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF), an affiliate of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), announced a $25,000 investment in the Fair Courts campaign to fight partisan attempts to rig the judicial system in North Carolina. In recent months, politicians in the North Carolina General Assembly have pushed an agenda that would gerrymander judicial districts to benefit Republicans and force many African-American judges in the state’s district and superior courts to run against other incumbents. In recent years, judges on these courts have heard gerrymandering challenges to state legislative maps.

Eric Holder, NDRC Chairman and the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, said: “Politicians in North Carolina are no longer content with their gerrymandering of state and congressional legislative districts — now they are taking aim at the judicial branch. This is a shameless attempt to rig the judicial system for partisan benefit and it must be stopped. The citizens of North Carolina deserve better from their elected officials and we are proud to support these local efforts to defend the independence of the judiciary.”

In recent years, Republicans in North Carolina have repeatedly lost in court over their gerrymandering of congressional and state legislative maps. Because they continue losing in court, they’re now trying to rig the state judicial system. NDRC is committed to fighting them on both fronts.

The National Redistricting Foundation is also supporting the voters in Cooper v. Harris, a case in which the Supreme Court affirmed the district court’s ruling that two districts in North Carolina’s 2011 congressional maps were unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. As a result of the court’s ruling, Republicans were forced to draw a new map. That new map was struck down yesterday by a federal court as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

https://democraticredistricting.com/ndrc-invests-in-effort-to-fight-judicial-gerrymandering-in-north-carolina/

RESIST! and use the courts to fight!

it would definitely be a big plus for Democrats - If I recall, 9 of the 10 most gerrymandered states were gerrymandered by Republicans. (Maryland is the one blue state) Blue states typically use non partisan methods for drawing congressional districts.

North Carolina: Republicans 9 to 4 currently
A "fair" map would be either 7/6 Republicans or 7/6 Democrats, a change of 2 or 3 seats and assuming more competitive races for many.

Between PA, WI, Texas and several others, it could conservatively be a pickup of 10-20 seats. (Back when he was still a Republican, Joe Scarborough admitted that Republicans maintained their House majority only through gerrymandering in 2012 after Obama won again...)

Fair apportionment will hand everything to the Democrats, the Republican party will dry up and blow away.

Now, will they be "reprimanded" for it?

Was hacked.

Took them until now to look into it?

every State in the Union!

I wonder if democratic leadership really knows what we are up against? Sometimes I think that they have worked too long & too closely with these people, & that they see their GOP counterparts as basically decent people, who just have different views. THEY ARE NOT. They have been bought by people who abhor democracy and equality. They will do whatever they have to do, to keep this power that they have gained by illicit means. I'm not sure the democratic party really thinks that. They may think that about Trump, but I don't think they think that about their colleagues in Congress.