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25 Oct, 3 tweets, 3 min read
Alabama is 2/7 Black, yet the Alabama GOP's newly unveiled congressional gerrymander draws 6 safe seats for white Republicans & just the 7th District for a Black Dem. But it's easy to draw a Black 2nd District, & an ongoing lawsuit seeks to compel it. See:
The Voting Rights Act should require a second Black VRA congressional district in Southern states such as AL, LA, & SC, but given the far-right turn of a Supreme Court determined to destroy the VRA, I don't expect this lawsuit to succeed
Louisiana is 1/3 Black, but GOP is trying to pass another congressional gerrymander with just 1 Black Dem & 5 white Rs. Civil rights groups have proposed several maps that redraw #LA05 as a second Black district. A lawsuit is likely news-emails.bindg.com/v1/newsletter/… aboutblaw.com/Z9H#page=16

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24 Sep
🤦‍♂️Several Nebraska Dems voted for the GOP's latest congressional gerrymander. Even though it isn't as bad as their map that split Douglas County, this one still makes #NE02 redder by putting the densest suburbs in Sarpy County with #NE01 & adding rural areas to the suburban #NE02
A more logical nonpartisan configuration would place Bellevue, which is the suburb nearest to Omaha's urban core, with #NE02 & make it even more urban/suburban, not less. This version would be 3-4 points bluer, which could make the difference in this hotly competitive district
I wonder if the GOP threatened to eliminate their filibuster rule & pass a more extreme gerrymander if some Dems didn't agree to this
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11 Aug
NEW: Daily Kos Elections presents our guide to 2020s redistricting in all 50 states. We explained how each state's rules work, & these cartograms show which party—if any—is expected to control redistricting for Congress (left) & state legislatures (right) dailykos.com/stories/2021/8…
Republicans are set to draw 2-3 times as many congressional districts as Democrats following their dominance in 2020's elections, which itself was partly due to their previous gerrymanders. This GOP advantage means the national congressional map will remain skewed toward the GOP
The Census Bureau is set to release the key data needed for redistricting tomorrow, & mapmakers will scramble to draw new districts ahead of upcoming deadlines in state law. In some states that means just a few weeks to draw new maps, giving little time for public input
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6 Jul
1/4 I'm deleting this thread & redoing it for clarity since many folks are just ignoring what I wrote & reading something into it that I didn't intend. I'm not subtweeting you in particular or telling you what to do if that's not what you're here for, just friendly suggestions ImageImage
2/4 #ElectionTwitter folks do a lot of cool stuff that people want to see, & some of y'all have funny/interesting takes on non-election topics too. But if you tweet 100 times a day & 10:1 about the latter, it makes it hard for people with limited time to follow you for the former
3/4 All I'm saying: Be mindful of your audience if you want to build up a following & get your work more broadly seen, but if you don't care, just ignore! I stay more on topic between 7am-7pm eastern than on weekends & evenings. Readers using lists helps
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1 Jul
America did not truly become a liberal democracy until 1965 with the passage of the Voting Rights Act. It's the most important civil rights law in U.S. history, & the Roberts Court has tried to dismantle it for many years (with Roberts himself spending his whole career on it)
While not the worst-case scenario, SCOTUS just delivered a major blow to the VRA by making it harder to strike down voting laws with discriminatory effects on voters of color.

Proving racist intent is often impossible, which is why banning racist effects has been so effective
Your reminder that a majority of 5 GOP Supreme Court justices were confirmed by Senates where the Dem minority represented more people & had won more votes than the GOP majority, with 3 of those justices appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote dailykos.com/stories/2020/1…
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30 Jun
Re-sharing after last night’s debacle.

Another key thing to know about New York elections is that the GOP had a gerrymandered hold on the state Senate for decades until after 2018 & blocked reform for years.

Dems passed a ton of voting fixes since 2019 but still have much to do
Same goes for slow vote counting, which has nothing to do with ranked-choice voting & everything to do with New York law.

State Dems passed a bill this month to ensure absentee ballots get counted much quicker in future, & almost every Republican voted no dailykos.com/stories/2021/6…
You're going to see a lot of bad-faith Republicans use New York City's unique screw-ups as a pretext to spread lies about ranked-choice voting without so much as acknowledging that their party is fighting to keep things broken.

They want chaos to delegitimize elections they lose
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28 Jun
Gee, what do you know, a significant minority of the voters swept up in a 2017 Georgia GOP purge of the rolls were still eligible & some re-registered. And no, every state doesn't remove eligible voters from the rolls simply for exercising their right not to vote like in Georgia
Yes, it's true that every state removes people voters from the rolls when they die or move. And it's also true that, while Republicans in Georgia & elsewhere have done just that, they've also intentionally swept up many people who are still eligible, especially voters of color
The 1993 National Voter Registration Act (motor voter law) says states cannot remove eligible voters from the rolls simply for exercising their right not to vote. SCOTUS gutted that protection on the most pretextual grounds in 2018, so GOP states adopted "use it or lose it" laws
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