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<blockquote data-quote="Macbrother" data-source="post: 4771385" data-attributes="member: 42759">Here&#039;s some research for you:&nbsp; The United States has 4% of the world&#039;s population and 20% of the world&#039;s Covid deaths.&nbsp; Only Italy and the UK had more dead per million.&nbsp; This is your idea of a good job?&nbsp; Very simple.&nbsp; A nonpartisan committee comprised of people who aren&#039;t politicians or lobbyists, approved by a judge ,with districts which are compact and contiguous.&nbsp; Over 17 states already have one.No.&nbsp; In 2016 North Carolina&#039;s districts were so badly gerrymandered that Republicans won 10 out of 13 districts, despite only getting 53% of the vote.&nbsp; That&#039;s disenfranchisement.&nbsp; To be fair, let&#039;s look at Maryland.&nbsp; In 2014, the state voted 41% Republican, yet only won 1 out of 8 districts.&nbsp; State congressional elections are often even worse.&nbsp; It&#039;s utterly undemocratic, and has no business still being around in 2020.&nbsp; Now, regarding your last statement - changes to the election process were contested, and defeated decisively by all state supreme courts in question, and those state supreme court rulings were affirmed by the United States supreme court.&nbsp; We have an arena to contest decisions and processes - it&#039;s called the courts.&nbsp; Sorry things didn&#039;t go your way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Macbrother, post: 4771385, member: 42759"] Here's some research for you: The United States has 4% of the world's population and 20% of the world's Covid deaths. Only Italy and the UK had more dead per million. [I]This [/I]is your idea of a good job? Very simple. A nonpartisan committee comprised of people who aren't politicians or lobbyists, approved by a judge ,with districts which are compact and contiguous. Over 17 states already have one. No. In 2016 North Carolina's districts were so badly gerrymandered that Republicans won 10 out of 13 districts, despite only getting 53% of the vote. [B]That's [/B]disenfranchisement. To be fair, let's look at Maryland. In 2014, the state voted 41% Republican, yet only won 1 out of 8 districts. State congressional elections are often even worse. It's utterly undemocratic, and has no business still being around in 2020. Now, regarding your last statement - changes to the election process [B]were[/B] contested, and defeated [B]decisively [/B]by all state supreme courts in question, and those state supreme court rulings were affirmed by the United States supreme court. We have an arena to contest decisions and processes - it's called the courts. Sorry things didn't go your way. [/QUOTE]

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