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lfromnj
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« on: October 15, 2020, 12:46:26 PM »

^^, congressional goes to the court for 2022. A bold move by the Texas GOP is to take the average of the decade races in 2010 and ask for a "proportional" map in court.
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2020, 04:43:33 PM »

This would be so huge. Flipping the State House would block Republican efforts to gerrymander after the 2020 census. I'm glad they have put in tons of ressources in the state. Even if Joe Biden narrowly falls short, investing in Texas is very smart, though I'm not sure the State House actually flips in case Joe Biden doesn't carry the state.

Pretty sure that if the TX state House and senate deadlock it goes to some sort of comission where like 4/5 officers would be Republicans?

So still allows for a gerrymander, just with slightly more effort.

It stops them implementing the proposed "state electoral college", a.k.a. the gerrymandering of the governorship/row offices.

A court during 2019 basically said keep it for now but we are warning you this could be illegal and MS is seeking to change that system. The MS GOP voted for a new system to be in place and it is on the ballot.
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