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MarkD
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« on: July 04, 2017, 04:27:52 PM »

They should consider themselves lucky that those tyrannous liberals of muh big cities are nice enough to   not gerrymander their districts into oblivion like virtually every Republican state does.

They already can thank the voters statewide for preventing gerrymandering by the state legislature. Several years ago the voters amended the state constitution to take redistricting away from the state legislature and put in the hands of an independent redistrict commission.
http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/faq.html

And there's no such thing as "gerrymandering into oblivion." Gerrymander uses the techniques of "stacking," "cracking," and "packing." It results in such things as having a ratio of 12 R to 4 D in a state where it could have been 8 R to 8 D, but there is no way to consign any voters into oblivion. I understand your anger, but anger often pushes people into saying irrational things.
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