Does redistricting also help win Senate races?

[Helga Scow Stern]

Like, does it make it easier to cheat, perhaps?

Any thoughts?

[never_get_over_it]

1. Since Senate is state wide race I don't think so

and as for cheating - I'm in Florida and I'm convinced that any cheating that goes on is not precinct by precinct - too many people involved - all you need is the voting machines to feed their results into a main computer and then have "someone" tamper with the results at the central location. That is what I think happened with optical scan results in Florida - makes more sense because you don't have as many people involved - when you get alot of people involved - it gets alot more risky.....I'm just afraid my vote might have been flipped to the freak-in-chief which litteraly makes me ill to think.

[progressiveBadger]

3. Yep, no way these idiots could keep that a secret

They have total control of the government and they still get leaks nearly daily. Of course, no one seems to care, but that's a different problem.

[Lurker321]

6. The problem with your theory is that the election results

are published precinct-by-precinct, so if someone has changed the precinct's numbers at the central location, whoever counted the precinct can look it up and note that the numbers were changed. Since there are thousands of precincts in Florida, thus thousands of such counters, it is unlikely that not one of them had the curiosity to compare the numbers that he got on the election night with the published ones.

[lenidog]

2. No it wouldn't

because a senate race is statewide. Instead of one town or county you are pulling votes from an entire state.

[Liberty Belle]

4. If it's the State Senate, yes.

Each state gets just 2 US Senators; there are no districts.

Redistricting would impact House seats in Congress, however.

[bush_is_wacko]

5. It actually DOES effect the federal House results...

In Colorado Bob Beauprez pulled something like this. He got the state to redistrict out here. He pulled in a small but mostly democratic district and folded those votes right in to his previously LARGELY Republican district. In that way, he hoped to drown out the voices of all of those Dems that did not support him (a man made mandate of sorts). As payback we voted in Ken Salazar(D)to replace outgoing Senator Ben NightHorse-Campbell. Now we need to work on getting rid of Beauprez, Musgrave, Hefley, and our Republican Governor Owens. They are NOT representing the true population of this state. I predict Hefley will be the hardest to get rid of. Musgrave and Beauprez both had really close races out here in this last election. They both squeaked by.