I’m not sure this is a NIMBY issue though. This is downstream of poor structural incentives for anything that could generate negative PR to happen in an electio

I’m not sure this is a NIMBY issue though. This is downstream of poor structural incentives for anything that could generate negative PR to happen in an election year. And thats less about voting precincts and more about career politicians. Responding to your other point, what people don’t understand is that for American politics to work you have to be okay globally with a checked oppression of minority viewpoints. The system doesn't work if every squeaky wheel has to be greased. And lately we seem to be spending our political and social capital protecting even the smallest minorities instead of taking big problems and working together to solve them on a state and country scale.