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In a Federal Courtroom in Texas, Republicans Were Desperate to Keep Details of their Gerrymander Under Wraps (www.democracydocket.com)

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Lawyers for the state of Texas spent nine days in a recently concluded federal hearing insisting that the state didn’t discriminate against Black and brown voters when it drew its new gerrymandered congressional map this summer.

But they fought tooth and nail during the hearing to keep as little information as possible from coming out about the mapmaking process.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

registered Dems need to get off their assess and vote

The Democrats aren't underrepresented because they're too lazy to vote. They're underrepresented because their ability to vote has been extremely effectively curtailed by all manner of Republican ratfucking.

Blaming Democrats for not voting in Texas is like blaming people in wheelchairs for not going up stairs with no ramps. The Texas elections are specifically designed to effectively disenfranchise as many Democrats as possible.

While local representation might be gerrymandered, statewide races like Governor, Lt Gov, Supreme Court, and Attorney General are not

Yeah, because gerrymandering is the ONLY voter suppression tactic in existence 🙄

There’s no excuse for electing someone like Ted Cruz.

I mean, in a just system, there wouldn't be. When 99% of likely Republican voters are able to vote and only 30% of likely Democratic voters (not actual percentages, but likely not that far off), though, any other outcome is unlikely to the point of being nigh-impossible.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 1 month ago

It's both.