Gerrymandering

with redistricting, but states still have a lot of wiggle room. As long as they follow strict population equality and do not dilute the votes of ethnic minorities, the states are in the clear. The subject at hand here is not about the legality of gerrymandering, but whether or not the redistricting process should be nonpartisan. I believe that the current redistricting process is unfair and illogical, and that the process should be nonpartisan to take the partisan politics out of the process, create

The decision of the District Court was vacated and remanded. Analysis. In his analysis of the first issue, Justice Breyer began by noting that the Court has always viewed racial gerrymandering as district by district claim. The harm of being selected on the basis of race is personal which justifies the district by district analysis. Furthermore, the plaintiffs did not waive any right to scrutiny of individual districts. While they did

Ratf**ked is a term used in political science to describe political sabotage or dirty plans. David Daley, in his book of the same name, describes Republicans incentives in 2010 to take control of state legislatures and control congressional redistricting processes. Republicans were then able to take redistrict in favor of a republican controlled congress being elected. This plan was entitled The Redistricting Majority Project or REDMAP (Daley 2016). After the 2008 election, the future of the

redraw or manipulate the boundaries of electoral constituency, known as gerrymandering, to give them an advantage in the election. Gerrymandering works by wasting the opposing party's votes by simply dividing the people and having a higher number of people who vote for them in a district to waste the votes of the opposing party. Both the democratic and the republican parties have been practicing gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is considered by some to be violating their constitutional right to vote

that the government fails to fix including gerrymandering and a lack of “bridge-builders.” Solutions to these causes that have yet to be made include improving the system of checks and balances and reducing representative dynamics and some of the nation’s most pressing problems that should not even be examples of congressional gridlock include climate change and the gun laws issue. There are many causes to congressional gridlock including gerrymandering, our complex government structure, representative

Gerrymandering, the process where politicians get to choose their voters. Say there is a state with a population of fifty, now three fifths of that state are democratic and the other two fifths are republican, now we need to separate this state into five congressional districts. The best way to do this would be so there are two republican representatives and three democratic. However with gerrymandering democrats can draw districts that are unfair and they get all five representatives, but if republicans

Proportional representation is an electoral system where parties will earn congressional seats in proportion to how many votes people cast for them. This would be an extreme opposite to the result of gerrymandering. People would then feel the need to vote because they know that their vote will actually go towards something. If 25% of the voters supported a certain party, that party would then get about 25% of congressional seats. Proportional representation

The American Oligarchy The United States is no longer the democracy it stands for. Democracy stands for a government controlled by the majority of the population. The United States is no longer controlled by the majority. America is controlled by the powerful corporations and rich elite. The combination of an uninformed, disinterested public, a flawed election process, and an economy controlled by 1% of the population have all led to the formation of the American Oligarchy. The government of the

republicans. That is an example of gerrymandering towards a specific political party. Recently, Texas has been caught using gerrymandering that discriminates against Latino voters. Due to population growth, which consisted heavily in Latinos. The “Republican state legislature drew a map designed to ensure that three of the new seats would go to Republican candidates” (Ginsberg, 176). This holds a huge disadvantage and blocks the way of true Democracy. Instead what gerrymandering does is help partisan politicians

runs much deeper than the superficial concerns from, they are physically discernable warning signs of a startling trend that regrettably stifles political discourse and obscures the legitimate appeals of constituents: the prevalence of district gerrymandering. Every decade, as per the Supreme Court’s ruling in Reynolds v. Sims, U.S. Congressional districts reevaluate the status quo situation of political district in regards to population, and redraw their individual localities accordingly. In its intended