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Election Redistricting Commission Meets Deadline (Barely)
Posted by Goldy on Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:48 PM
With less than two hours to spare before a midnight, New Year's Day deadline, the Washington State Redistricting Commission transmitted final legislative and congressional district maps to the state legislature. The commissioners had been deadlocked over how to draw our state's first "majority-minority Hispanic" legislative district (whatever that means) in the 15th, around Yakima. But... um... apparently, not anymore.
I'd provide further analysis, but fuck, it's almost midnight, so I'm going to bed.
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15th is 59% minority (majority minority), not sure what was traded to get that.
My 46th wraps around the north end of Lake Washington, that's fucked up.
There's your analysis.
My 46th wraps around the north end of Lake Washington, that's fucked up.
There's your analysis.
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Why can't westick with non-changing districts? Why don't we just form districts around watersheds, and require each district to be responsible for the water resources there? Gerrymandering always seems like just another way to game the system that we need to fix.
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