"Majority rule does not come easily in our electoral system."pic.twitter.com/aaveaMx0CE
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"Majority rule does not come easily in our electoral system."pic.twitter.com/aaveaMx0CE
"The Civil War was a time of racial divisions, technological disruption ... increasing inequality, and deep, deep partisanship." @SamWangPhD notes that we're currently living in a time with all of those factors once again.
.@SamWangPhD says, "Gerrymandering is old, but it's been made new again" due to partisanship.pic.twitter.com/nUulcwUmX5
Attempted fixes to gerrymandering have included: federal courts, state courts and New Federalism. The fundamental problem? The system has to want to be fixed.pic.twitter.com/kQJysUkcYo
"People will go to great lengths to elect voters that are agreeable" to them as candidates.
"Using our statistical measures, there used to be ~1 bad gerrymander per decade ... by the 2010s, 7 were picked up." @SamWangPhD and his team have developed the Princeton Gerrymandering Project to track this info.pic.twitter.com/f6UxLu0NJr
Federal election law, as @SamWangPhD notes, can be compared to the Death Star from @starwars -- "an impregnable fortress."pic.twitter.com/dttNeqzWnt
"This is the beginning of a long road in which we're going to find out if this approach is going to work," says @SamWangPhD of his team's recent @CommonCause win.pic.twitter.com/mQlNx58YvT
The next step: @SamWangPhD and his team are gathering data about redistricting in 4 states in hopes to expand to all 50 states (along with D.C. and Puerto Rico) by 2021 to eventually achieve open, public access.
Existing public and private databases contain many errors due to things like little quality control and lost data. Because of this, @SamWangPhD says, "at some point, it needs to be powered by citizens."pic.twitter.com/eX5UY7xZLJ
.@SamWangPhD wraps up by looking to the future: "The road ahead for us is exciting ... we're hoping to provide help for state-level activists ... our hope is to help provide open data and software" for everybody in the United States.pic.twitter.com/XNJQKcUGcs
it’s also absurd why you can’t vote online if you have a proof of citizenship - eg a passport @GOP @realDonaldTrump @FoxNews
so many people would vote for @MarshaBlackburn - even @BigMachine and @scottborchetta
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