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  1. Claire McNab @[email protected] ·

    #Gerrymandering is an odd game. If you have power to rig constituencies (districts in American), you can collect more seats than you deserve. In the #USA, the Republicans are hard at it.

    But gerrymandering calculates based on assumed voter intentions. If those assumptions are wrong, it can backfire.

    That's what's happening now in #Texas: see #TheObserver archive.is/0071G

    And it happened on a huge scale in 1970s Ireland: see the #Tullymander en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electora #iepol #uspol

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    #gerrymandering #usa #texas #theobserver #tullymander #iepol
  2. Claire McNab @[email protected] ·

    #Gerrymandering is an odd game. If you have power to rig constituencies (districts in American), you can collect more seats than you deserve. In the #USA, the Republicans are hard at it.

    But gerrymandering calculates based on assumed voter intentions. If those assumptions are wrong, it can backfire.

    That's what's happening now in #Texas: see #TheObserver archive.is/0071G

    And it happened on a huge scale in 1970s Ireland: see the #Tullymander en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electora #iepol #uspol

    >>

    #gerrymandering #usa #texas #theobserver #tullymander #iepol
  3. Claire McNab @[email protected] ·

    #Gerrymandering is an odd game. If you have power to rig constituencies (districts in American), you can collect more seats than you deserve. In the #USA, the Republicans are hard at it.

    But gerrymandering calculates based on assumed voter intentions. If those assumptions are wrong, it can backfire.

    That's what's happening now in #Texas: see #TheObserver archive.is/0071G

    And it happened on a huge scale in 1970s Ireland: see the #Tullymander en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electora #iepol #uspol

    >>

    #gerrymandering #usa #texas #theobserver #tullymander #iepol
  4. Claire McNab @[email protected] ·

    #Gerrymandering is an odd game. If you have power to rig constituencies (districts in American), you can collect more seats than you deserve. In the #USA, the Republicans are hard at it.

    But gerrymandering calculates based on assumed voter intentions. If those assumptions are wrong, it can backfire.

    That's what's happening now in #Texas: see #TheObserver archive.is/0071G

    And it happened on a huge scale in 1970s Ireland: see the #Tullymander en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electora #iepol #uspol

    >>

    #uspol #iepol #tullymander #theobserver #texas #usa
  5. Claire McNab @[email protected] ·

    #Gerrymandering is an odd game. If you have power to rig constituencies (districts in American), you can collect more seats than you deserve. In the #USA, the Republicans are hard at it.

    But gerrymandering calculates based on assumed voter intentions. If those assumptions are wrong, it can backfire.

    That's what's happening now in #Texas: see #TheObserver archive.is/0071G

    And it happened on a huge scale in 1970s Ireland: see the #Tullymander en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electora #iepol #uspol

    >>

    #gerrymandering #usa #texas #theobserver #tullymander #iepol
  6. Claire McNab @[email protected] ·

    @epistatacadam @beemoh @ChrisMayLA6 Without multi-member constituencies, #STV is just #AV. As the 1947 and 1974 gerrymanders showed in Ireland, STV needs at least 5 seats to produce fair outcomes. (DeV's 1947 gerrymander worked as intended, by blocking Clann na Poblachta; but the 1974 #Tullymander backfired spectacularly on Fine Gael and Labour)

    #stv #av #tullymander