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How does gerrymandering work? How does drawing new maps in a state to say these over here are repubs and the over here are dems? How does it matter when it just goes to the state vote? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Because historically, Republicans haven't concerned themselves with worrying about things like "fairness" and "the will of the people". Democrats are only really starting to fight back now (not that there hasn't been gerrymandering in favor of Democrats in the past) because the Republicans have gotten so egregious with it recently.

As for who gave them the right? The Supreme Court decided that redrawing districts for purely partisan, political reasons is apparently A-OK. So now, politicians can choose their voters, rather than voters choosing their representatives.