You want to see illegal Gerrymandering at work? Florida---an unbelievable story.

[trumad]

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“The mapmakers in Tallahassee — either the state legislative staff or Republican operatives — were literally going down to the census block level and figuring out what the performance of a district was by moving people in or out of key districts,” he said. “Each map exposed the decisions by leadership.”

He found that to help U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Winter Haven, the maps moved Democrats out of his district and into Democrat U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown’s sprawling north-south district.

“Dan Webster’s residence was actually in Corrine Brown’s district but that was because there were so many Democrats in that census block and precinct that his house came with it,” Smith said. “The final map tipped the minority voters in Brown’s district for the first time over 50 percent plus.”

But the data showed that mapmakers went beyond saturating Brown’s district with black voters. “They also sought other Democratic-performing white census blocks to pack into that district,” he said. “It made sure those Democrats were not in the adjacent competitive district.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article34169631.html#storylink=cpy

[Yallow]

1. Raping Our Votes From Us

Just another reason to hate Republicans.

[LiberalArkie]

5. Both the R's & the D's are involved. They both agree with the maps in the states. Status Quo is

the name of the game.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. It's been called......

Letting the politicians pick the voters, instead of the other way around.

[L. Coyote]

3. GOP the acronym = Gerrymander Or Perish.

Please spread widely!

[daleanime]

4. +1

[MrMickeysMom]

6. My Town, 3rd Ward Gerrymandering!

Monroeville, PA's 3rd ward has three US Congressional Districts (8th, 12th, 18th). This is what partisan legislative re-districting looks like. We need non-partisan re-districting in all states.

[erronis]

7. I love how a GOP operative responsible for the gerrymandering wants to block this evidence

Meanwhile, Gainesville-based Data Targeting, led by veteran GOP operative Pat Bainter, had argued that the release of their redistricting documents would violate his First Amendment rights to free speech and association and have a chilling effect on his ability to perform his job as a Republican consultant.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. I suspect they gerrymandered the west side of my city.

Ratio of Democrats to Republicans by precinct is 1:1 on that side, yet this city is said to be solidly Republican.

[Cleita]

9. Is gerrymandering ever legal? Sure I guess it is but it shouldn't be.

In my Civics classes back in the Jurassic, it was taught as a corrupt political practice. Why aren't we seeing it as that today.

[Scurrilous]

10. Florida = Republican Hell

OTOH, if they @#$% the state up bad enough maybe people will stop moving here.