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Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss

The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it.

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Signs in support of redistricting in Maiden, Virginia, on April 2. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

For months, Democrats crafted the illusion that their plan to redistrict Virginia was about restoring “fairness.” In a special election on Tuesday, most voters assented to that deception as a referendum to rewrite the state constitution narrowly passed.

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