The process of Gerrymandering has disenfranchised an obscene amount of voters. Redrawing districts to separate or even eradicate certain demographics from voting essentially violates the 15th amendment. The protection of the 15th amendment allows citizens to vote no matter race or gender, and have their vote matter. Gerrymandering takes away the gravity of their vote if they are removed from the population or drowned by a sea of other votes 100 miles away from where the voter lives. A prime example of this tactic in practice is in Texas. Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio are all split into several different districts so the population is separated. These spread out districts water down the voters with whomever the ones drawing the districts choose.
With those in office deciding where they want votes to come from, the right to vote given by the 15th amendment is effectively nulled. Taking away this right is criminal by nature and should be ruled unconstitutional, and sometimes it even is. If a district is deemed illegally drawn, the ones who drew it are forced to redraw it. This should not be the case. What's to say that those who drew the original line aren't going to redraw another district just as bad but get away with it under some loophole? We have the resources necessary to draw districts without the influence of those in office but refuse to do so. Gerrymandering should be brought to the supreme court as a federal matter and ruled unconstitutional for every situation.
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I 100% agree that Gerrymandering is a problem that is a plague among this country and on that particular prey on the poor and disenfranchised in the inner city areas. In addition the presented solution or a feasible call to action is deemed necessary as this unconstitutional practice has been going on in this country for too long. The supreme court of the United States needs to realize that this practice of redistricting areas is allowing for a false majority in a large amount of cities. This allows for a politicians to ignore a large amount of their constituents and goes against what the fore father of this county set in place not to mention it goes against what we as a nation strive to be. I think there needs to be a call to action in this country to make the supreme court of the united states review this malpractice that at the end of the day affects us all and what we have to say in our communities. The Supreme court should review how the process of districts gets put in place and in addition challenge the malpractices with the sediment that it violates the 15th amendment of the United States constitution.
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