SCOTUS to review Voting Rights Act

[Just_Believe18]

The Voting Rights Act is one of the greatest achievements of Congress in U.S. history. To strike it down would be a massive blow to our Republic. You should hold any politician or party to be suspicious to want to remove a piece of legislation that actually protects and encourages the most Americans to vote.

I am actually scared of what the Conservative side of the Supreme Court will do in this case. I hope it is not another Citizens United decision. Look at what a terrible thing it did to this year's 2012 elections. The money that poured into our elections was atrocious and harmful to our democratic process.

 

[JayHawk]

At Three Mile Island their jobs were on the line. No professor's job is going to be on the line for doing the math for redistricting. And if you're worried that somehow it could be, then use five teams and throw out the outliers -- though if they're doing it mathematically, all the results should match.

Several states already use programs and formulas to determine their maps during redistricting. And wouldn't you know, in those states there are never complaints about the maps benefiting certain parties, and the equity of the maps is never questioned.

Seems to me that if some states already do it without issue, its about damn time the rest of us do it too. And its about damn time the Federal government instructs the states to do so.

Look I am not saying it is impossible just that the idea of simply involving math will make it right does not add up in this politically charged country. Everything is manipulated for advantage.... everything.

 

[TX-Beau]

Its always been the issue, and it always WILL be the issue until partisans are forbidden from affecting the drawing of electoral maps. No one has the balls to actually fix it, because each side uses it to their benefit when they're in power.

Yeah, that was exactly the point I was making.