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> How can each vote carry equal weight if 60% of the voters get to select 30% of the elected officials? Your vote is measured the same way as my vote. Your vot
by mieseratte 7y ago
> How can each vote carry equal weight if 60% of the voters get to select 30% of the elected officials?
Your vote is measured the same way as my vote. Your vote doesn't equal three-fifths of mine.
There is apparently not a Federal regulation on crafting districts such that they overall skew in a given direction. In practice this can and does result in your vote being effectively worthless if you are in a district that is not your particular flavor.
Depending on your philosophies, the judiciary is not tasked with legislation or "correcting wrongs" but with evaluating the current ruleset and determining if things are correct given those rules. So despite that you and I can look and say "well regardless of the letter of the law, the outcome surely isn't right" you have those that view this as not being in their power to change. The law legislates the way in which the vote is counted, not in the district-creation process.
One would assume this is how his head remains intact.