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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the GOP Rigs Elections ... gerrymandering, voter-ID laws, and dark money
How the GOP Rigs Elections --- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gop-rigs-elections-gerrymandering-voter-id-laws-dark-money-w515664
With a combination of gerrymandering, voter-ID laws and dark money, Republicans have tipped the political scales in their favor. Will it be enough to keep Democrats from claiming victory in 2018?
By Ari Berman
On a quiet, tree-lined street in Racine, Wisconsin, in a neighborhood known as the Danish Village for its Scandinavian ancestry, sits a two-story white house with a large American flag hanging from the porch and a pro-police "We Back the Badge" sign in the yard. It's the home of Republican state Sen. Van Wanggaard, a 65-year-old former cop whose blond hair resembles that of Dennis the Menace.
Two houses to the south, Wanggaard's state Senate district the 21st abruptly cuts off to exclude the rest of the largely Democratic neighborhood. This used to be one of the state's most competitive Senate districts, encompassing all of rectangular-shaped Racine County, a 50/50 mix of urban and rural communities in southeast Wisconsin. But since the GOP gained control of the state's government in 2010, and redrew the legislative maps, the district is now shaped like a horseshoe .................
Two houses to the south, Wanggaard's state Senate district the 21st abruptly cuts off to exclude the rest of the largely Democratic neighborhood. This used to be one of the state's most competitive Senate districts, encompassing all of rectangular-shaped Racine County, a 50/50 mix of urban and rural communities in southeast Wisconsin. But since the GOP gained control of the state's government in 2010, and redrew the legislative maps, the district is now shaped like a horseshoe .................
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How the GOP Rigs Elections ... gerrymandering, voter-ID laws, and dark money (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Jan 2018
OP
+1, makes sense to start to look at provisional ballets in VSM states like Wisconsin
uponit7771
Jan 2018
#6
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)1. Ari Berman, "Give Us the Ballot"
Politics and Prose ---- Aug 19, 2015
What is a democracy without voters? The 1965 Voting Rights Act should have been a given; instead, it was a long struggle. One that is not over yet. Berman, a correspondent for The Nation, a frequent commentator on NPR and MSNBC, and the author of Herding Donkeys, shows that what looked like the grand achievement of the civil rights era has lost ground in the subsequent fifty years, embattled by gerrymandering, purging of voter rollsnotably in Florida in 2000voter ID rules, and a Supreme Court decision declaring part of the law unconstitutional.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)2. Ari Berman: Voter Suppression May Have Thrown Wisconsin To Trump
The Majority Report with Sam Seder --- Oct 25, 2017
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)6. +1, makes sense to start to look at provisional ballets in VSM states like Wisconsin
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)3. Look, they need all the help they can get
If this were a PE class picking dodge ball teams, the rethug would be the scrawny kid hiding behind the bleachers picking his nose, wetting himself and crying if anyone even looks at him. No one in their right mind would ever choose Peter Peepee for their team!
"Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I go gerrymander maps."
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)4. Cheating is the last refuge of a dying party.
And this year, even that won't be near enough. The gig is up.