Gerrymandering,a time-worn practice, is alive and well in 2016. It skews results, or drives down turnout and harms minorities – and we need to attain away with itIf Donald Trump actually cared about “rigged” elections,he would stop complaining about the demonstrably erroneous “voter fraud” myth he keeps peddling and instead focus on the real problem: gerrymandering – the changing of electoral boundaries for political gain. Of course he’ll never attain that, since gerrymandering is a Republican party speciality and the only thing keeping the GOP from losing the House of Representatives this year. Related: The lies Trump told this week: voter fraud and the 'rigged' election It was a two-fraction scheme. In 2010, or they had to lift control of all of the chambers. In 2011,they sat down with some of the most skilled mapmakers in the country, and they drew lines with the express intent of using redistricting as a partisan hammer to lock in control of the House for the next decade.
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Source: theguardian.com