On July 21, the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion in Baten v McMaster, 19-1297. This is one of the cases challenging a state’s practice of electing all its presidential electors at-large. Other such cases had recently been filed in Texas, California, and Massachusetts. None of them ever received support from any judge, until this decision came out. Judge James A. Wynn dissented, and wrote a lengthy dissent explaining why the case should have won. Here is the 65-page decision. The dissent begins on page 29. Judge Wynn argues that the precedents on this issue do not control this case.
Judge Wynn is an Obama appointee from North Carolina. He had previously written a Fourth Circuit opinion striking down North Carolina’s districts as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander, but the U.S. Supreme Court had reversed.
EC — ANTI-Democracy minority rule Exec gerrymander system
along with all the ANTI-Democracy minority rule Legis gerrymander systems —
USA Senate, USA H reps, ALL 99 houses in 50 State legislatures, zillion local govts legis bodies.
1/2 or less votes x 1/2 gerrymander areas = 1/4 or less CONTROL.
NONSTOP minority rule since 1776 — It shows in all the dead/tortured bodies [esp American Indians and slaves], destruction of ecosystems, govts econ insanity – govt deficits and debts, etc.
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PR and AppV — pending Condorcet.
TOTSOP
RED communist Donkeys have been attacking at large systems for a number of years —
legis, exec, judic — trying to get more rigged gerrymander areas.
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PR and AppV – pending Condorcet.