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[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Texas boggles my mind because it's such a blue state with some of the deepest red politicians running the place.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 85 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 114 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] Bytemeister 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Congressional districts should have a perimiter-area ratio limit, and the largest district should not be allowed to contain 10% more people than the smallest district.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I like that and it would probably work better than suing over a gerrymandered map only for the courts to uphold the crazy district, exactly what happened with the Texas 2nd Congressional District map.

Honestly with our current level of technology, a more direct democracy approach like a popular vote representation based on stance alignment would probably work better. For example, Average Joe would optionally select a party and then vote on policies, and the representatives would have selected their policies to align with constituents. Policies and candidates on ballot would be chosen through a regular primary, so each party might have separate policies on the ballot. Independents could select a mix of each and get automatically assigned a politician.

I bet the GOP wouldn't even oppose it because they love forcing people to commit to a party.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

A whole lot of empty land seems to have really important votes, since theirs seems to count for more than mine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They passed a law that every ceo gets an axtra vote for every ear of corn grown on Texas soil

[–] duderium2 11 points 4 months ago

The way americans look at texas is the way the world looks at amerikkka