On February 7, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Laphonza Butler (D-Cal.) introduced S.3750, which requires states to draw U.S. House districts that are not biased for or against any political party. Here is the bill’s text.
On February 7, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Laphonza Butler (D-Cal.) introduced S.3750, which requires states to draw U.S. House districts that are not biased for or against any political party. Here is the bill’s text.
OBVIOUS COMMIE DONKEY EFFORT TO RIG MORE DONKEY COMMIE DISTRICTS IN FASCIST ELEPHANT STATES.
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*COMMUNITY OF INTEREST* —
WORKED FOR CA COMMIES TO TAKE OVER CA AND MICH COMMIES TO TAKE OVER MICH
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/02/22/battling-for-control-of-the-senate-5-races-to-watch-in-2024/72676885007/
5 MARGINAL OF 33/34 USA SENATORS
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ABOUT 30 MARGINAL OF 435 USA REPS
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5 MARGINAL STATES TO GET ABOUT 40 OF 270 EC VOTES
HOW MANY $$$ MILLIONS/BILLIONS IN MARGINAL AREAS FOR TV ATTACK ADS ???
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-vote-harder-amend-missouri-210602053.html
MO CONST AMDT PROCESS WORSE
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WHICH MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER GANGS ARE MORE ANTI-DEMOCRACY —
COMMIE DONKEYS OR FASCIST ELEPHANTS ???
How WW1 Lit The Fuse Of WW2 | Impossible Peace | Real History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiq8vPhXl20
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1919-1923 RISE OF COMMUNISM/FASCISM
— DUE TO OLDE ROTTED BRITS/FRENCH AND SUPER-MORON WILSON.
— ALL 3 MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER REGIMES IN 1919 PEACE TREATY MESS
ESP BRIT/FRENCH FAILURE TO GET REAL DEMOCRACY INTO ITALY IN 1919-1922
Under the Article I, representatives are chosen (elected) by the People of the Several States. The electors (voters) are the same as those who elect the members of the most numerous branch of the legislature. At minimum, this includes US Citizens over the age of 18, without respect to sex or race, except those who participated in rebellion or are felons (14th, 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendments). States may not exclude persons who have failed to pay a poll tax (24th Amendment).
Persons who are adjudicated as mentally incompetent may be excluded, though this may result in loss of representatives. At one time persons who were illiterate in English could be excluded, but Congress has determined that this is tantamount to racial discrimination.
In Wesberry v. Sanders, the SCOTUS determined that when representative are elected by district, they can not be considered to be chosen by the People of the State if there are disparate numbers of voters in different districts. The SCOTUS concluded when representatives were elected at large by all voters of State a (“this rule is followed automatically, of course, when Representatives are chosen as a group on a statewide basis”).
So if a State has 400,000 voters, and elects two representatives at large, those two representatives can be said to be elected by the 400,000 voters as a whole.
But if the State were divided into two districts with populations of 100,000 and 300,000 they can not be said to be elected by the People of the State as a whole, because voters in the smaller district would have 3 times the voting power as those in the larger district.
The proposed bill makes it illegal to consider the number of voters in different districts. Now the good Senators might argue that when districts have equal numbers of persons resident, that they would naturally, hypothetically, have similar numbers of voters. So why do they bar use of metrics which would enable their hypothesis to be tested.
Alternatively, they are using a bizarre interpretation of the words “chosen by”:
“Mommy and Daddy are going to go vote, you stay here with the baby sitter.”
“Goo Goo Ba Ba” (slams the rattle against the side of the crib)
“She is so cute when she chooses”
N-O-T THE SAME IN ALL GERRYMANDER DISTRICTS —
ILLEGAL INVADERS
LEGAL FOREIGN RESIDENTS
UNDER AGE 18 CHILDREN
14-2 AMDT CONVICTS
MENTALLY ILL
LEGAL VOTERS CAN VOTE –
BUT NONE OF THE ABOVE – IN MOST SANE STATES/DC
SCOTUS – BRAIN DEAD IN 1964 GERRYMANDER CASES AND SINCE WITH CENSUS POP STATS — O-N-L-Y FOR 14-2 AMDT NUMBER OF REPS AND 1-9-4 DIRECT TAXES [AND INSTANTLY OBSOLETE -AND WORSE FOR 10 PLUS YEARS AFTER EACH CENSUS].
BILL- MAJOR STEP IN HAVING ILLEGAL INVADERS HELP DOMESTIC COMMIE DONKEYS TAKE OVER GERRYMANDER CONGRESS F-O-R-E-V-E-R — AND KILL OFF THE STATES.
IE – TO HAVE A MONARCH COMMIE PREZ AND A FEW TOP CONGRESS OLIGARCHS CONTROL THE USA.
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Terms like “community of interest” are squishy, and invite voluminous judicial interpretation.
A simpler remedy to reduce gerrynabdering (or is it Gerrymandering?) would be to require a minimum district size, such as 1,000 square miles. This would essentially make metro area districts into multi-member districts and keep rural districts as single member.
Given that rural districts tend to be demographically homogeneous, such a district would tend to be a natural “community of interest” Given that metro areas tend to be very diverse demographically, then each “community of interest” could create their own “virtual” districts, with their votes in multi-member elections. Such an outcome could be aided with some alternative form of voting in such districts, such as approval, ranked, proportional, or cumulative voting.
Now, it is conceivable under my minimum district size rule, that some states would try to evade the intent by creating huge single- member, pie-sliced shaped districts, with the narrow tips in the dense metro areas, and the districts widening out into to rural areas. But, if they do that, then they would be creating very demographically diverse districts, which would actually be very competitive politically. Not necessarily a bad outcome, given that the intent of gerrymandering is to make districts more homogeneous and politically predictable.
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TOTAL VOTES / TOTAL MEMBERS = EQUAL VOTES TO ELECT EACH MEMBER.
HIGHEST SURPLUS VOTES DOWN – REPEAT
LOWEST LOSER VOTES UP – REPEAT
ALL VOTES ELECT A MEMBER.
Take the power to allocate voters to incumbents away and let voters choose by right of association. Voluntary partisanship is democratic, involuntary non-partisanship is fascist. See this:
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=134368
Multi-member districts create opportunities for voters to “self-district’ whenever they vote.
@WZ,
Klobuchar is a lawyer, politician, and Democrat. A dangerous combination. If you were a member of a legislature or redistricting commission and suggested that “community of interest” was squishy, an “expert” would explain the term.
If you applied some independent judgment, the plan would end up in court. The interpretation of the court would be imposed on the following decades.
Its got a good beat and you can litigate to it.
Drooling in Detroit again.