#gerrymandering — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.
We interviewed @justinjpearson.bsky.social who is running for Congress (TN-9) about fighting back against gerrymandering, data centers, & billionaire megadonors.Thank you to our friends @couriernewsroom.bsky.social for filming!
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CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.
We interviewed @justinjpearson.bsky.social who is running for Congress (TN-9) about fighting back against gerrymandering, data centers, & billionaire megadonors.Thank you to our friends @couriernewsroom.bsky.social for filming!
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We interviewed @justinjpearson.bsky.social who is running for Congress (TN-9) about fighting back against gerrymandering, data centers, & billionaire megadonors.Thank you to our friends @couriernewsroom.bsky.social for filming!
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CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.
We interviewed @justinjpearson.bsky.social who is running for Congress (TN-9) about fighting back against gerrymandering, data centers, & billionaire megadonors.Thank you to our friends @couriernewsroom.bsky.social for filming!
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CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.
We interviewed @justinjpearson.bsky.social who is running for Congress (TN-9) about fighting back against gerrymandering, data centers, & billionaire megadonors.Thank you to our friends @couriernewsroom.bsky.social for filming!
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Gerrymandering
With all the recent uproar about Congressional redistricting, I suspected there was a decent chance that a lot of it was fake news, so I did a little digging and experimenting with my state of SC . . .https://morrowmichael.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/gerrymandering/
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Gerrymandering
With all the recent uproar about Congressional redistricting, I suspected there was a decent chance that a lot of it was fake news, so I did a little digging and experimenting with my state of SC . . .https://morrowmichael.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/gerrymandering/
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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t Count
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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t Count
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#Canada declared war against #Nazi #Germany almost 2 years before the #UnitedStates.
Canada stayed out of the #Vietnam quagmire completely, and welcomed #American #DraftDodgers that couldn’t afford to pay Doctors to lie, like #Trump did.
As a *trusted* #NATO member, Canada responded to invokation of #Article5 after #September11th and fought in #Afghanistan but passed on the #WarForOil in #Iraq.
#Canada outlawed *all* #gerrymandering.
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#Canada declared war against #Nazi #Germany almost 2 years before the #UnitedStates.
Canada stayed out of the #Vietnam quagmire completely, and welcomed #American #DraftDodgers that couldn’t afford to pay Doctors to lie, like #Trump did.
As a *trusted* #NATO member, Canada responded to invokation of #Article5 after #September11th and fought in #Afghanistan but passed on the #WarForOil in #Iraq.
#Canada outlawed *all* #gerrymandering.
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@georgetakei
I keep thinking how, after invading #Iraq under false pretenses, and destroying the economy via exploding gas prices, Voters were so angry they elected Obama with a #SuperMajority in the Senate.#Felon47 is TEN TIMES WORSE (at least #Dubya wasn't a flagrant criminal), and yet, despite that, due to all the #GOP #Gerrymandering and #VoterSupression, I'm not confident #Democrats will retake the Senate in November. 😞
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@georgetakei
I keep thinking how, after invading #Iraq under false pretenses, and destroying the economy via exploding gas prices, Voters were so angry they elected Obama with a #SuperMajority in the Senate.#Felon47 is TEN TIMES WORSE (at least #Dubya wasn't a flagrant criminal), and yet, despite that, due to all the #GOP #Gerrymandering and #VoterSupression, I'm not confident #Democrats will retake the Senate in November. 😞
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@georgetakei
I keep thinking how, after invading #Iraq under false pretenses, and destroying the economy via exploding gas prices, Voters were so angry they elected Obama with a #SuperMajority in the Senate.#Felon47 is TEN TIMES WORSE (at least #Dubya wasn't a flagrant criminal), and yet, despite that, due to all the #GOP #Gerrymandering and #VoterSupression, I'm not confident #Democrats will retake the Senate in November. 😞
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@georgetakei
I keep thinking how, after invading #Iraq under false pretenses, and destroying the economy via exploding gas prices, Voters were so angry they elected Obama with a #SuperMajority in the Senate.#Felon47 is TEN TIMES WORSE (at least #Dubya wasn't a flagrant criminal), and yet, despite that, due to all the #GOP #Gerrymandering and #VoterSupression, I'm not confident #Democrats will retake the Senate in November. 😞
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@georgetakei
I keep thinking how, after invading #Iraq under false pretenses, and destroying the economy via exploding gas prices, Voters were so angry they elected Obama with a #SuperMajority in the Senate.#Felon47 is TEN TIMES WORSE (at least #Dubya wasn't a flagrant criminal), and yet, despite that, due to all the #GOP #Gerrymandering and #VoterSupression, I'm not confident #Democrats will retake the Senate in November. 😞
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@volkris
Right now, #Felon47's #cult is losing races everywhere, which is why this sudden spate of mid-decade redistricting.It was that very #gerrymandering that brought this to #MafiaDon's hand-picked #SCotUS leading them to decimate the #VotingRightsAct.
So I challenge the idea any of this was achieved "fairly".
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https://www.europesays.com/people/75848/ Dems’ idiotic rhetoric on courts reveals what they’re really after #AlexandriaOcasioCortez #Courts #democrats #gerrymandering #HakeemJeffries #judges #Justices #opinion #SupremeCourt #TheConstitution #Virginia
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Some good ideas here -
1) Expand #SupremeCourt, impose 18-year #TermLimits, enact enforceable #ethics rules. Strip #SCotUS of #jurisdiction over certain topics.
2) Facilitate the passing of the Nat'l Popular Vote Interstate Compact; ends #ElectoralCollege
3) #Prosecute all #crimes committed by this admin./ fire all who joined #ICE recently
4) National law against any #gerrymandering. Independent panels create #voting districts.
#fascist #USA will #Democrats #grow a #spine
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/vra-democracy-crisis-democrats -
Some good ideas here -
1) Expand #SupremeCourt, impose 18-year #TermLimits, enact enforceable #ethics rules. Strip #SCotUS of #jurisdiction over certain topics.
2) Facilitate the passing of the Nat'l Popular Vote Interstate Compact; ends #ElectoralCollege
3) #Prosecute all #crimes committed by this admin./ fire all who joined #ICE recently
4) National law against any #gerrymandering. Independent panels create #voting districts.
#fascist #USA will #Democrats #grow a #spine
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Gerrymandering or not, however you slice it, this does not change my view that drawing districts ought to be a process left to independent commissions based on as transparent and nonpartisan a methodology as possible. The United Kingdom knows better than to have politicians pick voters, as does even Brazil.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5856022-redistricting-supreme-court-voting-rights-act/
#democraticBacksliding #democracy #electionReform #elections #gerrymandering #partisanship #redistricting #SCOTUS #VotingRightsAct #voterSuppression
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Gerrymandering or not, however you slice it, this does not change my view that drawing districts ought to be a process left to independent commissions based on as transparent and nonpartisan a methodology as possible. The United Kingdom knows better than to have politicians pick voters, as does even Brazil.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5856022-redistricting-supreme-court-voting-rights-act/
#democraticBacksliding #democracy #electionReform #elections #gerrymandering #partisanship #redistricting #SCOTUS #VotingRightsAct #voterSuppression
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Gerrymandering or not, however you slice it, this does not change my view that drawing districts ought to be a process left to independent commissions based on as transparent and nonpartisan a methodology as possible. The United Kingdom knows better than to have politicians pick voters, as does even Brazil.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5856022-redistricting-supreme-court-voting-rights-act/
#democraticBacksliding #democracy #electionReform #elections #gerrymandering #partisanship #redistricting #SCOTUS #VotingRightsAct #voterSuppression
#USPolitics -
Gerrymandering or not, however you slice it, this does not change my view that drawing districts ought to be a process left to independent commissions based on as transparent and nonpartisan a methodology as possible. The United Kingdom knows better than to have politicians pick voters, as does even Brazil.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5856022-redistricting-supreme-court-voting-rights-act/
#democraticBacksliding #democracy #electionReform #elections #gerrymandering #partisanship #redistricting #SCOTUS #VotingRightsAct #voterSuppression
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Analysis: There's no road map for where Alberta's riding boundary controversy is headed next
CBC’s Jason Markusoff follows up with the UCP Gerrymandering campaign, bringing us the details behind the majority and minority reports, and how the UCP are setting the stage for politicians to redraw the ridings.
If anything, I disagree with the headline, and I say that the road map is absolutely in full colour with legends attached. Canadians understand that politicians are always motivated to change goal posts in their favour. Even a layperson will understand that an absolute priority is to reduce the effort it takes for a politician’s voters to get them re-elected, and to ensure the process repeats in their favour over and over again.
In a farcical universe, if a politician could choose to have 1 vote count as 5000, provided they had absolute understanding of how to manipulate that 1 vote, and the world accepted this arrangement, they would choose this universe. Hence there are norms in place - voluntary by design - in the assumption that the politician would not willingly destroy personal credibility to interfere with the Process designed to build and maintain Legitimacy.
Here the UCP are indeed attacking that Process, and in turn reveal that Legitimacy does not matter to them. Danielle Smith’s UCP are engaged in Institutional Combat. They are prepared to maintain and defend any system to hold power. On the other hand, the UCP will attack and destroy any system that is perceived to be a hurdle to power.
> Smith has blown by political norms elsewhere, becoming the first Alberta premier to repeatedly use the notwithstanding clause, using legislation to nullify a court challenge to the referendum that separatists are pursuing, and even passing a law to make sure a former minister couldn’t name his fledgling party “Progressive Conservative.”
I would add to this list how the UCP have disarmed the Office of the Ethics Commissioner, Elections Alberta, and interfered with the Office of the Auditor General.
As hard as it may be to hear, the map charts a course to fascism.
#EthicalFading #UCP #ElectionsAlberta #AlbertaUnderSiege #DanielleSmith #Gerrymandering #AuditorGeneral #EthicsCommissioner
#comment
#AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli 2
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/analysis-alberta-electoral-boundary-new-maps-danielle-smith-naheed-nenshi-9.7175296
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/423251/analysis-there-s-no-road-map-for-where-alberta-s-riding-boundary-controversy-is-headed-n -
Analysis: There's no road map for where Alberta's riding boundary controversy is headed next
CBC’s Jason Markusoff follows up with the UCP Gerrymandering campaign, bringing us the details behind the majority and minority reports, and how the UCP are setting the stage for politicians to redraw the ridings.
If anything, I disagree with the headline, and I say that the road map is absolutely in full colour with legends attached. Canadians understand that politicians are always motivated to change goal posts in their favour. Even a layperson will understand that an absolute priority is to reduce the effort it takes for a politician’s voters to get them re-elected, and to ensure the process repeats in their favour over and over again.
In a farcical universe, if a politician could choose to have 1 vote count as 5000, provided they had absolute understanding of how to manipulate that 1 vote, and the world accepted this arrangement, they would choose this universe. Hence there are norms in place - voluntary by design - in the assumption that the politician would not willingly destroy personal credibility to interfere with the Process designed to build and maintain Legitimacy.
Here the UCP are indeed attacking that Process, and in turn reveal that Legitimacy does not matter to them. Danielle Smith’s UCP are engaged in Institutional Combat. They are prepared to maintain and defend any system to hold power. On the other hand, the UCP will attack and destroy any system that is perceived to be a hurdle to power.
> Smith has blown by political norms elsewhere, becoming the first Alberta premier to repeatedly use the notwithstanding clause, using legislation to nullify a court challenge to the referendum that separatists are pursuing, and even passing a law to make sure a former minister couldn’t name his fledgling party “Progressive Conservative.”
I would add to this list how the UCP have disarmed the Office of the Ethics Commissioner, Elections Alberta, and interfered with the Office of the Auditor General.
As hard as it may be to hear, the map charts a course to fascism.
#EthicalFading #UCP #ElectionsAlberta #AlbertaUnderSiege #DanielleSmith #Gerrymandering #AuditorGeneral #EthicsCommissioner
#comment
#AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli 2
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/analysis-alberta-electoral-boundary-new-maps-danielle-smith-naheed-nenshi-9.7175296
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/423251/analysis-there-s-no-road-map-for-where-alberta-s-riding-boundary-controversy-is-headed-n -
Analysis: There's no road map for where Alberta's riding boundary controversy is headed next
CBC’s Jason Markusoff follows up with the UCP Gerrymandering campaign, bringing us the details behind the majority and minority reports, and how the UCP are setting the stage for politicians to redraw the ridings.
If anything, I disagree with the headline, and I say that the road map is absolutely in full colour with legends attached. Canadians understand that politicians are always motivated to change goal posts in their favour. Even a layperson will understand that an absolute priority is to reduce the effort it takes for a politician’s voters to get them re-elected, and to ensure the process repeats in their favour over and over again.
In a farcical universe, if a politician could choose to have 1 vote count as 5000, provided they had absolute understanding of how to manipulate that 1 vote, and the world accepted this arrangement, they would choose this universe. Hence there are norms in place - voluntary by design - in the assumption that the politician would not willingly destroy personal credibility to interfere with the Process designed to build and maintain Legitimacy.
Here the UCP are indeed attacking that Process, and in turn reveal that Legitimacy does not matter to them. Danielle Smith’s UCP are engaged in Institutional Combat. They are prepared to maintain and defend any system to hold power. On the other hand, the UCP will attack and destroy any system that is perceived to be a hurdle to power.
Smith has blown by political norms elsewhere, becoming the first Alberta premier to repeatedly use the notwithstanding clause, using legislation to nullify a court challenge to the referendum that separatists are pursuing, and even passing a law to make sure a former minister couldn’t name his fledgling party “Progressive Conservative.”
I would add to this list how the UCP have disarmed the Office of the Ethics Commissioner, Elections Alberta, and interfered with the Office of the Auditor General.
As hard as it may be to hear, the map charts a course to fascism.
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Analysis: There's no road map for where Alberta's riding boundary controversy is headed next
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Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #clayface
9: #gerrymandering
8: #vorratsdatenspeicherung
7: #MusicWomenWednesday
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Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #clayface
9: #gerrymandering
8: #vorratsdatenspeicherung
7: #MusicWomenWednesday
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Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #clayface
9: #gerrymandering
8: #vorratsdatenspeicherung
7: #MusicWomenWednesday
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Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #clayface
9: #gerrymandering
8: #vorratsdatenspeicherung
7: #MusicWomenWednesday
6: #EarthDay2026
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Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #clayface
9: #gerrymandering
8: #vorratsdatenspeicherung
7: #MusicWomenWednesday
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Virginia Voters Weigh Major Congressional Map Shift
Virginia voters decide today on a new congressional map. If approved, it could give Democrats up to 4 more US House seats. See how it affects you.
#VirginiaVote, #CongressionalMap, #USHouse, #Election2026, #Gerrymandering
https://newsletter.tf/virginia-votes-new-map-change-us-house-seats/
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Virginia voters are deciding on a new congressional map today. If it passes, Democrats could gain up to 4 more US House seats, changing the balance of power.
#VirginiaVote, #CongressionalMap, #USHouse, #Election2026, #Gerrymandering
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Readers will recall that the commission’s work is normally non-partisan, and generates a unanimous report. But, the UCP introduced their own “minority” report without notice and likely with UCP involvement. The UCP continue to shift the goal posts in their favour, padding the roster with their own party members, and proposing to try again on the run up to the next 2027 Alberta Provincial election.
Canadians have seen this sort of Institutional Combat play out in the US to collapse branches of government. When the politicians propose selecting themselves to redraw the ridings, this is part of the strategy of “Move Fast, Break Things”. But, more importantly, the chaos is designed to facilitate UCP corruption.
#EthicalFading #Corruption #UCP #democracy #AlbertaUnderSiege #DanielleSmith #Gerrymandering
#comment
#AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/alberta-legislature-votes-to-redraw-electoral-map-to-make-a-91-seat-legislature
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/417204/alberta-legislature-votes-to-redraw-electoral-map-to-make-a-91-seat-legislature -
Readers will recall that the commission’s work is normally non-partisan, and generates a unanimous report. But, the UCP introduced their own “minority” report without notice and likely with UCP involvement. The UCP continue to shift the goal posts in their favour, padding the roster with their own party members, and proposing to try again on the run up to the next 2027 Alberta Provincial election.
Canadians have seen this sort of Institutional Combat play out in the US to collapse branches of government. When the politicians propose selecting themselves to redraw the ridings, this is part of the strategy of “Move Fast, Break Things”. But, more importantly, the chaos is designed to facilitate UCP corruption.
#EthicalFading #Corruption #UCP #democracy #AlbertaUnderSiege #DanielleSmith #Gerrymandering
#comment
#AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/alberta-legislature-votes-to-redraw-electoral-map-to-make-a-91-seat-legislature
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/417204/alberta-legislature-votes-to-redraw-electoral-map-to-make-a-91-seat-legislature -
Alberta legislature votes to redraw electoral map to make a 91-seat legislature
The motion would also establish an expedited special committee to oversee the electoral boundaries without the need for public hearings. The committee would be led by UCP MLA Brandon Lunty and will include three additional UCP MLAs and two members of the Alberta NDP.
“We’re not throwing out the commission’s work. We’re building on it,” Lunty said.
“I would hope that the members opposite can agree that when an independent commission tells us there may be a better way to ensure fair representation, we should at least take the time to examine that problem.”
Readers will recall that the commission’s work is normally non-partisan, and generates a unanimous report. But, the UCP introduced their own “minority” report without notice and likely with UCP involvement. The UCP continue to shift the goal posts in their favour, padding the roster with their own party members, and proposing to try again on the run up to the next 2027 Alberta Provincial election.
Canadians have seen this sort of Institutional Combat play out in the US to collapse branches of government. When the politicians propose selecting themselves to redraw the ridings, this is part of the strategy of “Move Fast, Break Things”. But, more importantly, the chaos is designed to facilitate UCP corruption.
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Alberta legislature votes to redraw electoral map to make a 91-seat legislature
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Alberta premier denies claims of UCP interference on electoral boundaries
Move quickly, break things : The US experienced collapse of their famed system of checks and balances, and their country has fallen to fascism. One motto that stands apart from how a global strategic ally and former super power could decline so rapidly is to move so fast and to break so many democratic processes and norms at once to capitalize and seize power.
Danielle Smith’s UCP, facing unprecedented allegations of corruption, refuses to surrender. She signals strongly that she will engage in “institutional combat” to the complete expense of Albertans, for power.
Susan Samson, one of the NDP’s appointees on the first commission, said in an interview Monday that the government getting elected officials involved in redrawing the maps was the opposite of how the process should play out.
“It’s very, very important work that’s being manipulated right now,” said Samson, a former mayor of the town of Sylvan Lake.
She said the commission’s process is supposed to be, and has historically been, independent and based on compromise.
“When we start rigging maps and gerrymandering, it can only end badly,” she said. “Unless the government chooses the majority report, this is not going to be a good outcome for Albertans.”
In their report last month, the majority wrote that the split on the commission came out of nowhere. They said the commission had been unified up until January, about two months before the final reports came out and close to nine months after the work got underway.
Samson said she didn’t see the break coming, but that she had no doubts that “something or someone” had pressured the UCP-appointed members to come up with a minority report.
Samson said she’s been questioning how the minority group had produced their own report so quickly, noting it had taken the commission as a whole six months to produce the unanimous interim report, plus another month to make the final version.
“Within two to three weeks they can produce an entire set of maps for the province?” she said.
“You tell me where it came from.”
The government’s motion provides the panel and committee with a fall deadline to produce the new set of maps.
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Alberta premier denies claims of UCP interference on electoral boundaries
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Globe and Mail’s Carrie Tait and Matthew Scace bring the latest efforts of Danielle Smith’s UCP to hold power in the face of expanding CorruptCare corruption allegations: gerrymandering. Essentially, Smith proposes an all out assault on democracy in Alberta by redrawing the ridings to mix urban ridings, normally represented by the NDP, with rural ridings that are normally represented by the UCP. In so doing, the UCP intend to improve their own voter efficiency, ensure their continued strangle hold on power, and push off any justice for corruption that could implicate their high profile party members and supporters.
As always, the article deserves a read, and I follow with some highlights…
#EthicalFading #Corruption #democracy #AlbertaUnderSiege #Gerrymandering
#AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-government-rejects-commissions-proposed-changes-to-provinces/
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/404457/alberta-government-rejects-commissions-proposed-changes-to-provinces-electoral-map -
Globe and Mail’s Carrie Tait and Matthew Scace bring the latest efforts of Danielle Smith’s UCP to hold power in the face of expanding CorruptCare corruption allegations: gerrymandering. Essentially, Smith proposes an all out assault on democracy in Alberta by redrawing the ridings to mix urban ridings, normally represented by the NDP, with rural ridings that are normally represented by the UCP. In so doing, the UCP intend to improve their own voter efficiency, ensure their continued strangle hold on power, and push off any justice for corruption that could implicate their high profile party members and supporters.
As always, the article deserves a read, and I follow with some highlights…
#EthicalFading #Corruption #democracy #AlbertaUnderSiege #Gerrymandering
#AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-government-rejects-commissions-proposed-changes-to-provinces/
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/404457/alberta-government-rejects-commissions-proposed-changes-to-provinces-electoral-map -
Alberta government rejects commission’s proposed changes to province’s electoral map
Globe and Mail’s Carrie Tait and Matthew Scace bring the latest efforts of Danielle Smith’s UCP to hold power in the face of expanding CorruptCare corruption allegations: gerrymandering. Essentially, Smith proposes an all out assault on democracy in Alberta by redrawing the ridings to mix urban ridings, normally represented by the NDP, with rural ridings that are normally represented by the UCP. In so doing, the UCP intend to improve their own voter efficiency, ensure their continued strangle hold on power, and push off any justice for corruption that could implicate their high profile party members and supporters.
As always, the article deserves a read, and I follow with some highlights:
The commission is the latest iteration of an electoral-boundaries-setting body that Alberta is required under provincial law to convene every eight to 10 years. It reviews the province’s electoral boundaries and proposes changes. The government mandates the number of constituencies the commissioners must incorporate into their map.
It’s a process designed to foster compromise and limit political influence over the placement of electoral boundaries.
The public dispute over the committee’s latest work began last month when it submitted, for the first time in its history, two very different maps.
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One was supported by a majority of its members: the chair, tapped by the governing UCP, and two panelists selected by the NDP. It was produced after a year of work and public hearings.
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The commission’s other two members, both tapped by the UCP, put forward a competing map and report. They proposed more than a dozen merged urban and rural ridings, diluting the power of the urban vote.
They defended it as “necessary to respond to demographic change, reduce polarization and reflect Alberta’s increasingly interconnected urban-rural landscape.”
The majority called this vision unconstitutional and illogical.
They said the minority members had proposed ridings in Calgary with sharp population differences, and they questioned whether the dissenters may have drawn boundaries in a way that would boost the UCP’s electoral prospects, a process known as gerrymandering.
“What might be the minority’s true motivation for this? Our friends south of the border may have a term for this type of redistricting,” the majority’s report says. Legislators in the United States have long warred over electoral maps, with gerrymandering emerging as a common political tool.
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Prof. Young said the boundaries commission itself broke with tradition when two members produced their own work.
“The idea of a unanimous report is essential to the credibility of the process.” -
Alberta government rejects commission’s proposed changes to province’s electoral map
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