Editorial: Governor, lawmakers, it’s time to put up, not shut up, on ‘Fair Maps’ – Daily Herald

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debtsor
6 years ago

IL Democrats won the state and have taken all of the bounties, including gerrymandering the map from a simple majority in to a super majority in the legislature and in sending our house Rep to DC. The Fair Maps would almost certainly remove Democrats super-majority as the current map tends not to ‘waste’ Democrat voters in from urban areas, as it purposely stretches and gerrymanders Democrat towns with Republican neighborhoods to dilute the R vote at ballot time. My district’s D state rep got 20,000 votes to the (R)’s 16,000 votes, even in a blue wave year, only because my… Read more »

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