#gerrymandering — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gerrymandering, aggregated by home.social.
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Shomari Figures made history - then the Supreme Court changed its mind
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn949jvjxplo -
Shomari Figures made history - then the Supreme Court changed its mind
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn949jvjxplo -
I have booked some more campsites and I am going to do a thing with my proof of residency, my 10 signatures, and my cheque for $50. #BikeCamping #BikeTooter #GerryMandering #LowVoterTurnout
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I have booked some more campsites and I am going to do a thing with my proof of residency, my 10 signatures, and my cheque for $50. #BikeCamping #BikeTooter #GerryMandering #LowVoterTurnout
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@bbd wie man an den USA sehen kann, bringt #gerrymandering nur Vorteile.
Für faschistoide Parteikonstrukte, welche zu Steigbügelhaltern korrupter, menschenfeindlicher Möchtegerndiktatoren werden.
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@htpcnz @thetnholler.bsky.social
Is this really how you see people who don't vote? Most of the people I know who didn't couldn't manage the hurdles put in front of them
#VoterSuppression
or they looked at the people running and couldn't see anyone who could conceivably represent them & decided it wasn't worth the hassleScapegoating an imaginary non-voter doesn't help us fix what's wrong with this system
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@htpcnz @thetnholler.bsky.social
Is this really how you see people who don't vote? Most of the people I know who didn't couldn't manage the hurdles put in front of them
#VoterSuppression
or they looked at the people running and couldn't see anyone who could conceivably represent them & decided it wasn't worth the hassleScapegoating an imaginary non-voter doesn't help us fix what's wrong with this system
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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!
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3mpypehuhp22l
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#Coup #Activism #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump #NoKings #elections #50501Movement #WeAreTheResistance #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere #FDT #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #protest #organize#JustinPearnson forCongress #TN9 #Gerrymandering #Megadonors #DataCenters #CampaignFinance #TNPolitics #CouriersNewsroom #BskySocial #Election2024
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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!
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3mpypehuhp22l
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#Coup #Activism #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump #NoKings #elections #50501Movement #WeAreTheResistance #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere #FDT #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #protest #organize#JustinPearnson forCongress #TN9 #Gerrymandering #Megadonors #DataCenters #CampaignFinance #TNPolitics #CouriersNewsroom #BskySocial #Election2024
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RE: https://appdot.net/@morrick/116867583261531107
🔥🔥🔥 Wow.
"The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy."
#MAGA #Gerrymandering #USPol #Midterms #Trump #DonaldTrump #Racism #Republicans #Progressive #BernieSanders #MarshanCamese
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RE: https://appdot.net/@morrick/116867583261531107
🔥🔥🔥 Wow.
"The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy."
#MAGA #Gerrymandering #USPol #Midterms #Trump #DonaldTrump #Racism #Republicans #Progressive #BernieSanders #MarshanCamese
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Today, in lieu of scheduled celebrations of a US that is held hostage by forces bent on dismantling democracy, I am re-posting an essay I wrote in September 2024, prior to the last election, about the considerable repair work that American democracy needs to protect itself from tyrants.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/09/repairing-democracy.html
#politics #USPolitics #4th #july4th #FourthOfJuly #US250 #US250th #Democracy #Freedom #Constitution #SCOTUS #ElectoralCollege #Gerrymandering #voting #impeachment #CitizensUnited #Rights #Corporations #Marriage #Abortion #Pardons #DEI #Religion
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Today, in lieu of scheduled celebrations of a US that is held hostage by forces bent on dismantling democracy, I am re-posting an essay I wrote in September 2024, prior to the last election, about the considerable repair work that American democracy needs to protect itself from tyrants.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/09/repairing-democracy.html
#politics #USPolitics #4th #july4th #FourthOfJuly #US250 #US250th #Democracy #Freedom #Constitution #SCOTUS #ElectoralCollege #Gerrymandering #voting #impeachment #CitizensUnited #Rights #Corporations #Marriage #Abortion #Pardons #DEI #Religion
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I don't know how to say it other than the US has a corruption problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9U71_dAEC8 #USPol #GerryMandering #JohnOliver -
I don't know how to say it other than the US has a corruption problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9U71_dAEC8 #USPol #GerryMandering #JohnOliver -
@br00t4c Letting people die to take control of their voting rights, the MAGA (fascist) cult will no doubt abuse them. That could just be his end, with RICO out of control, the Pretorian guard will have to step in. And the voting machines software? #VoterRigging #CancelCulture #gerrymandering #WorstPresidentEver
#EcocideEmpire #FascistDerangement -
@br00t4c Letting people die to take control of their voting rights, the MAGA (fascist) cult will no doubt abuse them. That could just be his end, with RICO out of control, the Pretorian guard will have to step in. And the voting machines software? #VoterRigging #CancelCulture #gerrymandering #WorstPresidentEver
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Hoy os traigo un juego.
En la política de Estados Unidos hay un término bastante conocido llamado "gerrymandering". Que significa básicamente cambiar las circunscripciones electorales para beneficiar a tu partido.
Porque sí, en otros sitios las circunscripciones electorales no son fijas como en España (la provincia), sino que se ajustan cada cierto tiempo supuestamente para favorecer la representatividad.
Eso conlleva que si el organismo que decide cómo se trazan las circunscripciones no es independiente... Beneficia a alguien. En Estados Unidos normalmente acaba perjudicando a personas racializadas, sorpresón.
Este juego precisamente te enseña a cómo ganar teniendo menos votos gracias a pervertir los distritos electorales, el gerrymandering.
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Hoy os traigo un juego.
En la política de Estados Unidos hay un término bastante conocido llamado "gerrymandering". Que significa básicamente cambiar las circunscripciones electorales para beneficiar a tu partido.
Porque sí, en otros sitios las circunscripciones electorales no son fijas como en España (la provincia), sino que se ajustan cada cierto tiempo supuestamente para favorecer la representatividad.
Eso conlleva que si el organismo que decide cómo se trazan las circunscripciones no es independiente... Beneficia a alguien. En Estados Unidos normalmente acaba perjudicando a personas racializadas, sorpresón.
Este juego precisamente te enseña a cómo ganar teniendo menos votos gracias a pervertir los distritos electorales, el gerrymandering.
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Everyone's watching Trump. Meanwhile a 2019 SCOTUS ruling quietly told politicians they can gerrymander without limit. That's the actual democracy story. by @bledewitz.bsky.social
https://onlys.ky/rucho/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fresh
#Gerrymandering #SCOTUS #AmericanDemocracy #ElectionReform #Politics
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Everyone's watching Trump. Meanwhile a 2019 SCOTUS ruling quietly told politicians they can gerrymander without limit. That's the actual democracy story. by @bledewitz.bsky.social
https://onlys.ky/rucho/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fresh
#Gerrymandering #SCOTUS #AmericanDemocracy #ElectionReform #Politics
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These are mesmerising, little brain/logic puzzles. And so enlightening ..
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These are mesmerising, little brain/logic puzzles. And so enlightening ..
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Protesters mobilized in #Georgia to stop racial #gerrymandering and the state government backed down, fearing how much new maps would energize the blue vote.
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Protesters mobilized in #Georgia to stop racial #gerrymandering and the state government backed down, fearing how much new maps would energize the blue vote.
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@sixtus es ist aber auch bemerkenswert, wie Wegner mit einem Kulturkampf gegen alle, die kein eigenes Auto haben, die letzte Wahl gewonnen hat. (Mit den Stimmen des EFH-Speckgürtels). #gerrymandering
Zu Paris hieß es mal, Hidalgo konnte nur deswegen ihre #Verkehrswende machen, weil die Verwaltungsgrenze eng um die Stadt verläuft und die Pendler-Vororte außen herum nicht so viel Gewicht haben.
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@sixtus es ist aber auch bemerkenswert, wie Wegner mit einem Kulturkampf gegen alle, die kein eigenes Auto haben, die letzte Wahl gewonnen hat. (Mit den Stimmen des EFH-Speckgürtels). #gerrymandering
Zu Paris hieß es mal, Hidalgo konnte nur deswegen ihre #Verkehrswende machen, weil die Verwaltungsgrenze eng um die Stadt verläuft und die Pendler-Vororte außen herum nicht so viel Gewicht haben.
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Opinion Writer Warns Tennessee Redistricting Could Further Reduce Democratic Representation
📰 Original title: Red state's next move may be to purge Democrats entirely
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Differential privacy is a cornerstone of modern-day #statistics.
It allows the generation of datasets that are statistically relevant for a researcher, but that leak as little as possible about the individuals in the dataset.
It works on several principles:
- Suppression, usually by removing outliers from the dataset that could lead to easily identifiable targets.
- Coarsening, e.g. replacing a city with a region or a country, or a date of birth with an age range.
- Sampling, usually through the removal of random records.
- Swapping, where some attributes from different records may be randomly swapped.
- Noise addition, by adding or subtracting random numbers in a given noise range to the actual values.
From 1990 to 2010, the US Census Bureau primarily relied on swapping for the decennial census. Then, they realized that this technique was actually very unsafe, and that it was pretty easy to reconstruct individual records using the published statistics.
They eventually adopted the full differential privacy framework in 2020.
But some people apparently got annoyed with that. And the main culprit was noise addition.
Adding a normal random distribution to the data made the numbers noisy, and some people who rely on the US Census expecting its numbers to be fully accurate were very annoyed.
Who are these people?
Well, one category is that of demographers and social scientists. Still, their mathematical models can be adapted to take into account that they’re dealing with noisy data - especially if the noise gain of distribution is published upfront.
But the most annoyed ones are thos who used the Census data to reconstruct actual records of individuals.
Yes, you read it well. There are people who use public datasets that are supposed to be coarse, and leverage probabilistic models to reconstruct information about individuals.
One big use case in America is, of course, #gerrymandering.
Those nonsense spiky borders can be much more accurate when the Census data allows you exactly to identify who lives where and what’s their ethnicity, so you can dilute the voting powers of some ethnic groups much more efficiently.
Apparently those groups have lobbied the Federal government so much that they got it to release an order that states the following:
Any use of noise infusion is inconsistent with the Department’s policies
This is a serious attempt of a political body to interfere through legislation into technical decisions that should be uniquely delegated to technical specialists - and the academic consensus is currently that of a full differential privacy framework.
Noise infusion is the most effective pillar in the differential privacy framework to prevent identification of individuals in public datasets.
Weakening it is likely to make everyone’s #privacy worse, and benefit only very few and their interests.
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Differential privacy is a cornerstone of modern-day #statistics.
It allows the generation of datasets that are statistically relevant for a researcher, but that leak as little as possible about the individuals in the dataset.
It works on several principles:
- Suppression, usually by removing outliers from the dataset that could lead to easily identifiable targets.
- Coarsening, e.g. replacing a city with a region or a country, or a date of birth with an age range.
- Sampling, usually through the removal of random records.
- Swapping, where some attributes from different records may be randomly swapped.
- Noise addition, by adding or subtracting random numbers in a given noise range to the actual values.
From 1990 to 2010, the US Census Bureau primarily relied on swapping for the decennial census. Then, they realized that this technique was actually very unsafe, and that it was pretty easy to reconstruct individual records using the published statistics.
They eventually adopted the full differential privacy framework in 2020.
But some people apparently got annoyed with that. And the main culprit was noise addition.
Adding a normal random distribution to the data made the numbers noisy, and some people who rely on the US Census expecting its numbers to be fully accurate were very annoyed.
Who are these people?
Well, one category is that of demographers and social scientists. Still, their mathematical models can be adapted to take into account that they’re dealing with noisy data - especially if the noise gain of distribution is published upfront.
But the most annoyed ones are thos who used the Census data to reconstruct actual records of individuals.
Yes, you read it well. There are people who use public datasets that are supposed to be coarse, and leverage probabilistic models to reconstruct information about individuals.
One big use case in America is, of course, #gerrymandering.
Those nonsense spiky borders can be much more accurate when the Census data allows you exactly to identify who lives where and what’s their ethnicity, so you can dilute the voting powers of some ethnic groups much more efficiently.
Apparently those groups have lobbied the Federal government so much that they got it to release an order that states the following:
Any use of noise infusion is inconsistent with the Department’s policies
This is a serious attempt of a political body to interfere through legislation into technical decisions that should be uniquely delegated to technical specialists - and the academic consensus is currently that of a full differential privacy framework.
Noise infusion is the most effective pillar in the differential privacy framework to prevent identification of individuals in public datasets.
Weakening it is likely to make everyone’s #privacy worse, and benefit only very few and their interests.
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Utah Voters Finally Got a Fair Map. Republicans Are Making Sure It Never Happens Again.
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Utah Voters Finally Got a Fair Map. Republicans Are Making Sure It Never Happens Again.
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The Moot Point of Gerrymandering
The Republicans are gerrymandering. But the math could backfire on them in November:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=191
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The Moot Point of Gerrymandering
The Republicans are gerrymandering. But the math could backfire on them in November:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=191
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From a singer-songwriter whose work warrants a lot more attention, #Nanseera: “Poison Rain” is a new and original protest song about racist #gerrymandering in the states of the former Confederacy.
It's a vital and beautiful work of art, as are many of her other songs. I hope for her success.
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The suggestion that partisan #gerrymandering has nothing to do with race is fantastical. It ignores the defining role of #race & #racism in shaping partisan affiliation in the #US. For instance, the embrace of the #CivilRights movement by the national #DemocraticParty is, acc/to many historians, the main reason so many white Southerners became #Republicans in the second part of the 20th century, a phenomenon known as realignment.
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The suggestion that partisan #gerrymandering has nothing to do with race is fantastical. It ignores the defining role of #race & #racism in shaping partisan affiliation in the #US. For instance, the embrace of the #CivilRights movement by the national #DemocraticParty is, acc/to many historians, the main reason so many white Southerners became #Republicans in the second part of the 20th century, a phenomenon known as realignment.
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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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#SCOTUS dealt with the case in an unsigned order [cowards] over the dissent of the 3 liberal justices.
The order on the court’s #EmergencyDocket is the latest instance of the justices dipping into the nationwide flurry of mid-decade #redistricting instigated by #Trump’s desire for the #GOP to retain control [steal #elections] of the #House in this November’s midterms.
#law #redistricting #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
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#SCOTUS dealt with the case in an unsigned order [cowards] over the dissent of the 3 liberal justices.
The order on the court’s #EmergencyDocket is the latest instance of the justices dipping into the nationwide flurry of mid-decade #redistricting instigated by #Trump’s desire for the #GOP to retain control [steal #elections] of the #House in this November’s midterms.
#law #redistricting #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
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Unreal
#SCOTUS allows #Alabama to use #GOP-friendly map for #midterms, cutting seat held by #Black #Democrat
#law #redistricting #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/politics/supreme-court-june-trump?cid=ios_app -
CW: Wahlrecht
Wir schauen häufig entsetzt in die #USA, wenn #Trump und seine #MAGA-Leute die Wahl per #Gerrymandering manipulieren. Zu Recht. Aber so weit müssen wir gar nicht immwr schauen. Die ständigen Versuche der #CDU / #CSU das #Wahlrecht zum Deutschen #Bundestag zu ihrem Vorteil zu ändern, sind das gleiche in Grün. Wir haben nur Glück, dass unser Wahlrecht keinen so großen Hebel zur Manipulation bietet.
