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Orderly. Transparent. Rigged.
Doesn’t make the gerrymandering any better just because it’s out in the open. Here’s to another decade of moving backwards.
The time to get angry about the maps was before the 2020 election. If people didn’t want gerrymandered maps, they should have elected more Democrats to the Statehouse.
Why the Indiana Democratic Party didn’t make this a campaign issue, I’ll never know. Of course, it comes as a surprise to most people that there IS an Indiana Democratic Party.
The Ed Mahern, Democratic party maps were extreme examples of gerrymandering. The GOP draws districts to their advantage but they are much more compact and more often keep communities of interest together than any Democratic Party maps ever drawn.
All the controversy about these maps is the minority party wanting to game the system. Someday when Democrats are in charge, they will draw partisan maps and the Republicans will be calling for an independent commission.
Joe W, you sound like Trump
Communities of interest? Like wiping out the influence of suburban Indianapolis?
How does one congressional district with Greenwood and Richmond make sense? How about Carmel and Muncie? Avon and West Lafayette?
The Indianapolis area should have been drawn so they had two congressional representatives. The Indianapolis area is the engine of the state of Indiana. It’s where people are moving TO.
Instead, a line was drawn around the Democratic area of Indianapolis and all the areas trending purple were nullified. I live in Indianapolis and I now share a representative with someone in Hagerstown. Tell me how that’s a “community of interest”.
And make sure you tell the people in Fort Wayne how it makes sense how their city was parsed into four pieces on the Indiana Senate map, all of which were drawn with significant “out of town” components.
Don’t trust my words, look at the map:
https://cdn.zephyrcms.com/a6cfab54-1ed2-41e6-9e90-706924b4eb0e/-/inline/yes/2021-senate-district-map-as-adopted-oct-12021-counties-townships-cities.pdf
Here’s the thing – this is totally unnecessary. If the maps were drawn that match what Republicans claim they do, they would still won most all elections in the state of Indiana. They’d still control both houses of the legislature.
But these maps enable Republicans to do their business not in front of citizens on the legislative floor, but in their private caucus discussions, since they’ve ensured a majority to where they don’t even need Democrats to conduct business. Republicans will continue to set their agenda in private for ten more years, and they won’t care about the general election in November, but they will just base their policies and decisions off making sure that no one “more conservative” comes along in May and knocks them off in the primary.
Indiana is able to hold free and fair elections so it should also be possible to develop fair congressional and state legislative maps. The Legislature needs to relinquish this responsibility.
LOL. What is “fair” and what great, noble, impartial group are you suggesting should be in charge of the maps?
Here’s something that would be “fair” – it should be against the law to use election results or voter registration data to draw maps. Yet it is legal here in Indiana, and the results of the last five elections were made available in the legislature’s own application for showing us constituents how to draw maps.