2/ In 2010 amid a red wave, Republicans picked up several Dallas County seats just before the next round of redistricting. https://bit.ly/2RFwqiz #Midterms2018
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1/ Gerrymandering has backfired for Republicans in Dallas County. Republicans had hoped to keep a majority of Texas House seats there when they redrew district boundaries. Now, they hold onto only two of 14. #Midterms2018 #Election2018 #txlege https://bit.ly/2RFwqiz pic.twitter.com/tIMkld6gPC
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3/ Democrats allege Republicans packed and cracked Latino voters across the county to diminish their voting strength overall and ensure a GOP majority.
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4/ But Republicans “shaved those things off a little too close because they got greedy,” said Jose Garza, a voting rights lawyer who helped challenge the GOP’s mapmaking.https://bit.ly/2RFwqiz
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5/ “The lesson is you can get too clever in gerrymandering,” said Michael Li, a redistricting expert with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. https://bit.ly/2RFwqiz
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6/ During redistricting in 2011, the number of seats in Dallas County dropped from 16 to 14. Both of those losses were Republican-held seats, but Republicans were still able to carve up the county in a way that gave them a two-seat advantage.https://bit.ly/2RFwqiz
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7/ Here’s what happened in 2012. https://bit.ly/2RFwqiz
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8/ Here’s what happened in 2014. https://bit.ly/2RFwqiz
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9/ Here’s what happened in 2016. https://bit.ly/2RFwqiz
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10/ And now it’s 2018. Republicans hold onto two of the 14 seats. They used to hold 8. https://bit.ly/2RFwqiz
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11/11 2012 vs. 2018 in Dallas County in Texas. http://bit.ly/2RFwqiz
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Gerrymandering is still alive & stifling democracy in Ohio. Voters passed redistricting in May then elected GOP to the offices that weigh in on redrawing the map in 2021. Vicious cycle will continue until the District map is fair.
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Ugh, I feel ya here in Louisiana. Convenient how they scooped up New Orleans and Baton Rouge into a single district.
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My sister lives in a minority-majority district in southern Arlington. There was ONE voting machine. She waited three hours to vote.
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Sigh. It did not backfire. It was overwhelmed by a tsunami of Trump hatred and demographics. Dallas is 70% (D) now. You can’t gerrymander that.
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I'm heartened by this for a different reason. It's a good thing that gerrymandering has bit both sides in the ass enough across the country. Getting independent state commissions to draw the lines should be what we all root for now.
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Agreed. No politician should EVER get to draw the lines for a district. Non partisan committees with help from Math professors to ensure no gerrymandering. There are several who are now witnesses in voting rights lawsuits. They show how mathematically these districts are skewed.
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Gerrymandering should be the top question to any official running for state office. Suppressing the will of half the people is not right, regardless of your party.
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