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ALEC Doubles Down on Trump, Corporate Agenda at Annual Meeting in Texas
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/08/14/alec-doubles-down-trump-corporate-agenda-annual-meeting-texas/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=ebae7c2f-3e51-48ee-80e8-3f616963f95aGearing up for Gerrymandering
Now that the Supreme Court has kicked the door wide open for partisan gerrymandering, ALEC will also make sure its GOP legislative members are prepared to redraw their districts in the most favorable way come 2021
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In the last redistricting cycle, Republicans led by political strategists like Karl Rove executed their REDMAP gerrymandering plan to lock in control of three quarters of state legislative chambers and the U.S. House despite a close split between Democratic and Republican voters.
“What’s scary is not that ALEC is holding these panels for redistricting but they are likely gearing up for the next round of gerrymandering unbound by any fear that the Supreme Court would rein in partisan gerrymandering,” said Kathay Feng, Common Cause’s national redistricting director.
Gearing up for Gerrymandering
ALEC’s draft policy statement opposes the National Popular Vote (NPV) campaign which, if successful, would award electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote. The group will host a workshop at its Austin summit, National Popular Vote Interstate Compact – An Act of Federalism or the End of States as We Know Them, to debate whether it poses “an existential threat to federalism.”
Sixteen states possessing 196 electoral votes have passed NPV bills to date, but they will not go into effect until states totaling 270 electoral votes (a majority of the 538 total electoral votes) have adopted similar measures.
ALEC’s draft statement argues that “the current Electoral College system best preserves our two-party system and prevents the fracture of America’s political structure.”
Now that the Supreme Court has kicked the door wide open for partisan gerrymandering, ALEC will also make sure its GOP legislative members are prepared to redraw their districts in the most favorable way come 2021
...
In the last redistricting cycle, Republicans led by political strategists like Karl Rove executed their REDMAP gerrymandering plan to lock in control of three quarters of state legislative chambers and the U.S. House despite a close split between Democratic and Republican voters.
“What’s scary is not that ALEC is holding these panels for redistricting but they are likely gearing up for the next round of gerrymandering unbound by any fear that the Supreme Court would rein in partisan gerrymandering,” said Kathay Feng, Common Cause’s national redistricting director.
Gearing up for Gerrymandering
ALEC’s draft policy statement opposes the National Popular Vote (NPV) campaign which, if successful, would award electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote. The group will host a workshop at its Austin summit, National Popular Vote Interstate Compact – An Act of Federalism or the End of States as We Know Them, to debate whether it poses “an existential threat to federalism.”
Sixteen states possessing 196 electoral votes have passed NPV bills to date, but they will not go into effect until states totaling 270 electoral votes (a majority of the 538 total electoral votes) have adopted similar measures.
ALEC’s draft statement argues that “the current Electoral College system best preserves our two-party system and prevents the fracture of America’s political structure.”
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