- YourPrivatHater ( @YourPrivatHater@ani.social ) 7•2 months ago
How can you vote on maps?
- Nougat ( @Nougat@fedia.io ) 6•2 months ago
The maps in question are for voting districts.
- taanegl ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 1•2 months ago
Yeah, but it still makes no sense. Like how can you have actual representation when the district’s are changed like underwear? It’s not a check and balance, it’s just a waste of tax payer money and time.
- Nougat ( @Nougat@fedia.io ) 3•2 months ago
I believe that under normal circumstances, redistricting happens every ten years, roughly correlating with updated census results. Except when the map is gerrymandered to all hell, and someone raises a legal challenge to it, and the court orders a correction, and then the “corrected” map is still gerrymandered, and the court goes, “No … do it again.”
I’m not sure whether that’s happened in Ohio specifically, but I know it’s happened.
- taanegl ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 1•2 months ago
It’s pretty insane. That people even put up with it. I mean, in some cases, we know it’s CRT, and even dominionists trying to sow up local representative democracy, but when people are just “meh” about it or spin it as some weird form of “check and balance”, it just shows an inability to see a petty game unfold.