Wisconsin’s powerful Republican Assembly leader said Tuesday that he hopes the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court adopts new constitutional legislative boundary maps, even as he slammed proposals from Democrats as “a political gerrymander” and threatened an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The court tossed Republican-drawn maps, long considered among the country’s most favorable to the GOP, and ordered new maps that do not favor one party over another. It said if the Legislature doesn’t adopt maps, the court will.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Republicans have approached Democrats about passing new maps in the Legislature, but “we have not gotten a warm reception to that idea.”
Easy enough, let’s make political gerrymandering unconstitutional, as it always should have been. Politicians should not be choosing their voters, that’s 180° backwards.
Eliminate the idea of districts altogether. Voting for county seats? All the county citizens votes are pooled together. State level? Same thing, all votes count the same no matter where you’re from in the state.
The complexity of the splits serves only to gerrymander.
I like the German electoral system, they vote for individual candidates and then a party. The candidates get seated first, and then additional members from the party’s ticket are added to create the proportion of representation that each party received.
No gerrymandering and no two party system, win-win!
I think the problem is specifically identifying what counts as gerrymandering. Sure you’ve got super obvious cases where the districts straight up look like a hydra, but with some math and now a little bit of help from AI, it’s perfectly possible to partition districs that look perfectly geometric on the surface but are actually really skewed.
Personally I feel like if there were a single standard drawing process by which all maps were legally mandated to be drawn with, things would be better
You can have an independent commission drawing the maps, and people have even developed algorithms that can do it in software so there’s no human involved.
Computer programs exist that can draw legitimate districts. Lawsuits can challenge districts, and if found to be based on race or political affiliation they can be removed. Bad faith actors will forever be a problem though.
Vos dismissed the maps submitted by Democrats, saying they would move too many boundary lines and force incumbent lawmakers to run against one another.
How dare you undo my gerrymandering!
Ahahahahahah!
Oh wait he’s serious, I’m gonna laugh even harder.
“we have not gotten a warm reception to that idea.”
Well… yeah, because of gerrymandering you outnumber them nearly two to one, despite receiving roughly the same amount of votes. If it were put to a legislative vote you’d make it even more unbalanced.
Political gerrymandering is Constitutional. Your party’s corrupted SCOTUS out front should have told you.
Send him to Ohio
This is the best summary I could come up with:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s powerful Republican Assembly leader said Tuesday that he hopes the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court adopts new constitutional legislative boundary maps, even as he slammed proposals from Democrats as “a political gerrymander” and threatened an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Republicans have approached Democrats about passing new maps in the Legislature, but “we have not gotten a warm reception to that idea.”
“We are always open to conversations with our colleagues, but have yet to be convinced that Republican Legislators are serious about passing a fair and representative map, especially given the extreme gerrymander they submitted to the court on Friday,” she said in a statement.
Vos dismissed the maps submitted by Democrats, saying they would move too many boundary lines and force incumbent lawmakers to run against one another.
In the 2022 election, Wisconsin’s Assembly districts had the nation’s second-largest Republican tilt behind only West Virginia, according to an Associated Press statistical analysis that was designed to detect potential gerrymandering.
Vos has also suggested that the appeal would argue that liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz, who called the current maps “rigged” and “unfair” during her run for office, should not have heard the case.
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SLAM
They also don’t need to do the favor of just repeating the Republican’s chosen framing rather than using the headline to outline the actual truth.
Yada yada, kettle, pot, black, yada
Go back to whatever you came from, you waste of flesh
ITT: Why no one, not even Democrat voters, like the Democrats.
Still better than Republicans who are traitors to the country and democracy.
