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Ray LaHood and James Nowlan: Extreme gerrymandering is as bad as old white-only primaries

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Clever software, aided by hands-off decisions from the federal courts, has in recent years transformed decennial redistricting of legislative seats from a process of representing voters to that of effectively “unrepresenting” them — denying effective participation in elections for broad swaths of citizens. The consequences are, we contend, as anti-democratic as the reviled white-only primaries in the Old South. Readers know the drill. In the man…

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Ray LaHood and James Nowlan: Extreme gerrymandering is as bad as old white-only primaries

Clever software, aided by hands-off decisions from the federal courts, has in recent years transformed decennial redistricting of legislative seats from a process of representing voters to that of effectively “unrepresenting” them — denying effective participation in elections for broad swaths of citizens. The consequences are, we contend, as anti-democratic as the reviled white-only primaries in the Old South. Readers know the drill. In the man…

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Ray LaHood and James Nowlan: Extreme gerrymandering is as bad as old white-only primaries – Chicago Tribune*

"Illinois offers arguably the worst illustration in the nation of this anti-democratic procedure. Over the past four gubernatorial elections in our state, 46 percent of Illinois voters cast Republican ballots on average for governor. Yet only three out of our 17 congressional districts elected Republicans in the past two, post-redistricting election cycles."

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WirePoints Illinois Financial News broke the news in on Thursday, February 27, 2025.
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