Column: Another big win for gerrymandering – Champaign News-Gazette

"The Princeton Gerrymandering Project, a nonpartisan group at Princeton University that assessed redistricting in the United States in 2021, gave Illinois’ map a grade of F for partisan fairness, competitiveness and geographic features, saying it wasn’t compact and split counties more than the typical map. Champaign County, for example, is now in three districts: the Second, 13th and 15th. Ending gerrymandering, however, may be a lost cause."
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Truth Seeker
3 years ago

This is the only way they can win. For a Blue State they have implemented quite a few unethical strategies – Vote by Mail and Gerrymandering. Is the State of Illinois really that Blue? You wouldn’t think so by their desperation to cheat and manipulate the vote.

debtsor
3 years ago
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It’s blue but the ballot harvesting and gerrymandering give it a domination it would not otherwise be able to achieve if the state’s votes were split proportionally. We’d have a much more red legislature because all the blue votes are sunk really, in Cook, Lake and some of DuPage Counties, leaving dozens of competitive red seats throughout the state. But the map is gerrymandered to do the opposite – sink Republicans into a fewer number of R +40 districts, and the need to draw some really crazy looking districts to do that.

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