Reversing decades of precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in a Texas case that different minority groups cannot jointly claim that their votes have been diluted.

This court is a Republican-majority appeals court

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
    6·
    4 months ago

    Voting is most definitely not a sham; there are real issues with gerrymandering, but the reality is that power is in fact awarded in the US on the basis of who wins elections.

    • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
      13·
      4 months ago

      The latest round of redistricting in Galveston County, a community of 350,000 people, redrew a district in which Black and Hispanic voters together had made up a majority of voters. The redrawn boundaries reduced their combined share of the district’s electorate to 38 percent.

      right there in the article

      leaders rigged the election to get elected and to keep holding power

      voting is a sham

      and both parties participate in different ways to keep people from voting

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
        3·
        4 months ago

        That’s called gerymandering.

        And yes, unilateral disarmament is a dumb idea — the Democrats ended gerrymandering in a few states (eg: California) but aren’t going to end it nationally except as part of a law to do it for the whole country. Which the Republicans have blocked at the federal level.