Governor called referendum after president urged GOP-led states to redraw maps to protect House majority
Voters in Virginia on Tuesday approved new congressional maps intended to boost Democrats’ chances of retaking the House of Representatives, in the latest blow to Donald Trump’s effort to use mid-decade redistricting to preserve his control of Congress.
The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas’s Republican-controlled legislature to redraw that state’s congressional maps in a bid to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers in the November midterm elections.
California voters retaliated by approving new maps that could flip five Republican-held seats, and in Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, the newly elected Democratic governor, backed an effort to redraw her state’s maps following her January inauguration. Tuesday’s referendum could help Democrats win four additional House seats in November’s midterm elections.
Asking the voters to approve a voting system is now considered eroding democracy?
Do you not understand the words you’re using? Or are you just a “conservative” who is here to “just ask questions” because if you acted like this in the real world, someone would put you in a hospital while the rest of us denied seeing anything?
I choose to believe you’re not that stupid.
Like, you realize people can vote for a thing that would itself be undemocratic… Right?
This is why no one likes you.