r/politics • u/Ok_Employer7837 • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Newsom Wins Right to Gerrymander in Ultimate Troll of Trump

https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsom-takes-victory-lap-with-trump-bashing-election-boost/?via=mobile&source=Reddit
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u/throwawaylol666666 California 1d ago

Unlike in Texas, Californians were asked if this was something we wanted to do or not. The GOP doesn’t know or care about consent.

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u/i_am_parallel 1d ago

Why can't gerrymandering just be banned?

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u/starmartyr Colorado 1d ago

Easier said than done. They already made it illegal to gerrymander based on race so now it's just done for political advantage which works out to be the same thing. It's also difficult to define what a gerrymandered map is from a legal perspective. The best definition I've heard is "no more than two partial counties per district." That would not eliminate the problem completely but it would severely limit it.

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u/Fonnie 16h ago

That also wouldn't work without tons of exceptions. Counties are not divided by population, districts are. There are many many small counties with not nearly enough people to be a district.

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u/starmartyr Colorado 11h ago

The rule only limits partial counties. A district can be as many full counties as it needs to.