On November 2, 2010, the voters of Florida passed two redistricting reform measures, one for U.S. House districts and one for state legislative. They said that although the legislature would continue to draw the boundaries of these districts, the legislature was forbidden from drawing the boundaries for partisan advantage.
On March 30, the Florida legislature finally sent these measures to the U.S. Justice Department, Voting Rights Section, for pre-clearance. The Governor had refused to send them in, prompting a lawsuit. But then various units of state government decided that it was the legislature’s duty, not the Governor’s duty, to send them to the federal government, and that step has been taken. See this story.
Automatic minority rule gerrymanders in ALL single member district regimes.
i.e. the FL reforms are worth about ZERO.
The party hack robots will exploit all of the loopholes to the max — to get POWER and stay in POWER.
P.R. and App.V.
The pre-clearance stuff is a TOTAL perversion / subversion of the 15th Amdt due to the robot party hack SCOTUS MORONS since 1966 — being *politically correct* — part of the general party hack robot INSANITY since 1965 — a mere 46 years of INSANITY in SCOTUS.
See the debates about the 15th Amdt in Jan-Feb 1869 — due to the close gerrymander election of Prez Grant in Nov. 1868 in the marginal gerrymander Electoral College States in the NORTH – due to black voters — many ex-Union Army and Navy folks during the Civil War.