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magicarpet

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9. They have control of redrawing the legislative maps too.

Reply to magicarpet (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 13, 2021, 09:17 PM

Feb 2021

You can bet they will gerrymander them to death.

The maps are to be redrawn just before 2022. The newer the gerrymandered map, the more accurate, the more advantageous for the ReThugs to marginalize Dem votes.

So we have that working against us too.

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