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How politicians have marginalized voters in America


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2016 Jan 28, 1:01pm   809 views  1 comment

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http://www.wired.com/2016/01/gerrymandering-is-even-more-infuriating-when-you-can-actually-see-it/

President Barack Obama spent the last chunk of his 2016 State of the Union Address talking about how to fix our politics. His first solution? Stop gerrymandering, the shaping of congressional districts to guarantee electoral outcomes. We have to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters, and not the other way around, he said. At least one geographer has heeded Obamas call to action.

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1   Tenpoundbass   2016 Jan 28, 2:41pm  

Sure now that the Establishment thinks it's perfect.
I say end the districts all together. This isn't 1842 anymore and no one's vote is being marginalized because they live in a rural state with only 50 voters.

The last century we should have left the constitution alone and modernized our archaic voting system. But I mean something more transparent than Diebold.
Make all votes public record, and you get a receipt after you pol. Plus pass a law that discriminating against someone's voting record a violation of their constitutional rights.
And said person could own your company for not hiring based on their voting record. So it would be in HR department's best interest to NOT vet new hires by looking at how they voted.

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