While Gerrymandering has a long tradition in this country, it goes against what I believe to be a guiding principle of this country, one persons vote should count the same as another persons.
I was never a principle that we followed, in fact the Constitution and the Electoral College enshrine the principle that some people count more than others.
Still over the yeas it was at least given some credence by our politicians as they pretended to embrace democracy. We don't have democracy, we have representative Government and the way we select thoe representatives is often very un-democratic.
Sometimes we simply suppress some voters but more effectively we create districts that make their vote next to meaningless.
Creating a fair voting system is difficult but essential to have a democratic outcome.
Elections are rigged but not via voter fraud, it starts much earlier than that.
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