The Art of Gerrymandering - visualized
by Instagram user: @datastuffplus
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@infobeautiful
Works only in first-pass-the-post systems.
@infobeautiful laughs in proportional representation...the UK and US are at best stuck in the 19th century. Sorry, but you can discuss how maps are drawn for your 2 choices it remains by all means a retarded electoral system. Danes have more than 10 parties for about 6 million people, but over 300 million US citizens have to do with two shades and "Citizens United" in the blender? Seriously, how you don't feel mocked as a voter there is beyond me...
@infobeautiful Well, for once, noone did anything to prevent it in the first place. Neither the Reps nor the Dems. And every side had plenty of time to do so, to make it balanced for both sides and foolproof.
Everyone talked about it but nothing changed.
So if you want to blame someone for it: blame both sides.
@infobeautiful It would be too simplistic, of course, to simply count all the votes and add them up?
@infobeautiful I wonder why people are not pushing hard against districts?
I say that, but here I'm trying to find people to improve our voting system which also incentives polization and everyone I find is either "yeah, we are trying to push [insert worse idea here]" or "that's hopeless".
@infobeautiful as distasteful as it might be, Dems absolutely have to rort them back, for the "my colleague across the isle" shit is dead.
@infobeautiful only in the USA (that i know of); not democratic imho
@Frieke72 @infobeautiful It is being done, and has been done, in other countries too, but nowhere as brazenly and to such an extreme extent as in the US by the Republicans.
