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"The new map is so brazen that progressive elections analyst Drew Savicki found it would create up to 85 districts expected to be Democratic in the 118-seat state House, even though only 69 Democrats would be elected in a map that fairly reflected the proportional strength of each party. So while Democrats would naturally win a majority because they dominate the state, the Democratic plan would net them nearly 80 percent of the seats from less than 60 percent of the votes."
Audio and summary linked here.
A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
Summary and audio linked here.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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Pretty alarming when a Leftist paper like the WaPo is critical of the partisan election rigging practices of Illinois Democrats. There is absolutely no shame in Illinois.
Yes, but this a red herring, a distraction. The piece suggests that to ‘combat’ gerrymandering the solution is to pass HR 1 which makes legal all of the worst voting laws in the country like: voting season instead of election day, ballot harvesting, no voter ID laws, absentee ballots for any reason, mailed ballots to all registered voters, real or fake, alive or dead, not allowing regular and routine voter roll purges, etc. And they know too that ‘non-partisan’ map drawing commissions are anything but. They are packed with partisans, pass overwhelmingly partisan maps, and then legislators point to the… Read more »
I should have know better – it’s always ‘bait’n switch’ with Democrats.
Simple solution: LEAVE Illinois and defund the state.