Chain Letter for Democracy #2 of 100

Economic Gerrymandering

A lot of time and money is being wasted by the habitual politcians trying to game the system with un-Constitutional gerrymandering. Re-districting is supposed to happen every ten years after a census. Political gerrymandering originates some strange looking districts to have a political majority.

Most elections are won by a few percentage points: 3% to 7%. Instead of having districts with a vast majority of one's party, habitual politicians in control of re-districting spread their base voters around as many districts as possible. One way of doing this is cramming members of the political opposition into a few districts. Thus, a state sends more representatives of one's party to Congress.

A better, more democratic re-districting is Economic Income Gerrymandering.

Political gerrymandering has not only been used by state legislators to limit the political power of the other party, but they have used it to dilute black votes in Congress: American Apartheid Homelands. This discrimination echos the Constitution's Three-fifths Compromise.