Redistricting Wars

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Ohio Initiative to End Gerrymandering Will Be on the Ballot This November

The Ohio citizen-initiated constitutional amendment to end gerrymandering officially qualified to be on the ballot this November, Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) announced Tuesday.

Citizens Not Politicians, a campaign to end gerrymandering in Ohio, introduced the amendment to have an independent citizen commission draw congressional and legislative maps instead of lawmakers.

Excellent news.

 

[MajorRewrite]

A lawsuit challenges Wisconsin’s gerrymandered congressional district map. ️

 

[MajorRewrite]

The Trump administration is pushing Texas to do a rare and controversial midterm gerrymandering in a desperate attempt to avoid losing control of the House of Representatives.

It’s the election fraud that MAGA sheep love.

But the contours of the plan, including whether Gov. Greg Abbott would call a special session of the Legislature to redraw the maps, remain largely uncertain.

The idea is being driven by President Donald Trump’s political advisers, who want to draw up new maps that would give Republicans a better chance to flip seats currently held by Democrats, according to two GOP congressional aides familiar with the matter. That proposal, which would involve shifting GOP voters from safely red districts into neighboring blue ones, is aimed at safeguarding Republicans’ thin majority in Congress, where they control the lower chamber, 220-212.

Ironically, the state is already being sued over the current gerrymandered voting maps. So naturally the MAGAs want to make the gerrymandering even more extreme.

A trial is underway in El Paso in a long-running challenge to the state legislative and congressional district maps Texas drew after the 2020 U.S. Census.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Again, Trump is pushing Texas to gerrymander voting districts even more than it has.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is pushing Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional maps to create more House seats favorable to his party, part of a broader effort to help the GOP retain control of the chamber in next year’s midterm elections.

The president’s directive signals part of the strategy Trump is likely to take to avoid a repeat of his first term, when Democrats flipped the House just two years into his presidency. It comes shortly before the GOP-controlled Texas Legislature is scheduled to begin a special session next week during which it will consider new congressional maps to further marginalize Democrats in the state.

Republicans in Texas are worried that more extreme gerrymandering could backfire.

Some Texas Republicans have been hesitant about redrawing the maps because there’s only so many new seats a party can grab before its incumbents are put at risk. Republicans gain new seats by relocating Democratic voters out of competitive areas and into other GOP-leaning ones, which may then turn competitive with the influx.

Republicans: the party of election fraud and gerrymandering!

 

[ll74]

Gerrymandering by parties in power should be against the law.

 

[73Seahawks]

Anyone want to guess which of the five House Democrats in the Lone Star State will be on their way out in 2026?

 

[eric_erosfan]

Should just let AI draw up equal sized districts without any inputs into race or political demographics. Then whoever comes out of those districts may not be so partisan.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Republicans are going ahead with more gerrymandering (election fraud) in Texas. Pathetic.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Gerrymandering is everything in US politics. Everything. It should be outlawed.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Gerrymandering: when elected officials choose their voters instead of voters choosing their elected officials!

 

[MajorRewrite]

Texas Republicans try to gain Hispanic support while redistricting to eliminate Hispanic voter impact

The Texas GOP’s latest congressional gerrymander, passed by the Texas Senate, explicitly targets key districts represented by Latino-elected Democrats, underscoring a strategy to court Latino voters symbolically while cutting off their actual electoral power.

And they aren’t even pretending to hide it:

“We have three Hispanic-predominated districts in South Texas that we believe we can carve out for Republican leadership,” State Rep. Mitch Little (R) admitted on CNN last week. “It’s good for our party. It’s good for our state. And we need to ensure that Donald Trump’s agenda continues to be enacted.”

 

[eric_erosfan]

Wasn't all of this prohibited by the courts? Now there is a real war.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...edraw-districts-in-response-to-texas-00516874

 

[MajorRewrite]

If I was election czar, I’d have AI draw nonpartisan voting maps for each state, with simple shapes for every district. A panel of 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans in each state would have to unanimously approve the map. The panel members would each get just 2 chances to reject maps. If a map was rejected, the AI would draw another map.

A nonpartisan final map would quickly be agreed on because the panel would be hesitant to reject a map without knowing if a worse map would be next.

Unfortunately, I don’t think any kind of rational system for drawing election maps is in our future.

 

[eric_erosfan]

If I was election czar, I’d have AI draw nonpartisan voting maps for each state, with simple shapes for every district. A panel of 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans in each state would have to unanimously approve the map. The panel members would each get just 2 chances to reject maps. If a map was rejected, the AI would draw another map.

A nonpartisan final map would quickly be agreed on because the panel would be hesitant to reject a map without knowing if a worse map would be next.

Unfortunately, I don’t think any kind of rational system for drawing election maps is in our future.

Because it is not in the best interest of the two major parties? Ridiculous.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Because it is not in the best interest of the two major parties? Ridiculous.

Would be good for the nation but bad for wacko politicians playing power games.

 

[Hel_Books]

Maybe after all this insanity with gerrymandering, your country will pass a law that says, for example, that every Congressional district has to have at least one point inside it where you can see the rest of the district without territory of some other district blocking the view.

Or some such geometric rule that will prevent a party from winning a lot of seats in Congress despite not having so many votes.

Otherwise you're just living in a banana republic.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The first of the three promised bills to gerrymander at least five Republican districts in California out of existence should Texas pass their own partisan gerrymander was passed 30-9 by the California legislature and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsome.

The bills only take effect if Texas passes their toxic gerrymander.

Blue states FINALLY playing hardball.

Edit: Governor Newsom take a victory lap!

https://imgur.com/6Bb05wD

 

[HisArpy]

The first of the three promised bills to gerrymander at least five Republican districts in California out of existence should Texas pass their own partisan gerrymander was passed 30-9 by the California legislature and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsome.

The bills only take effect if Texas passes their toxic gerrymander.

Blue states FINALLY playing hardball.

Edit: Governor Newsom take a victory lap!

https://imgur.com/6Bb05wD

Yes, I'm sure you think it's a victory to deny people fair representation merely because another State is doing something you don't like.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Yes, I'm sure you think it's a victory to deny people fair representation merely because another State is doing something you don't like.

Yes, I’m sure you think it’s a victory to deny people fair representation in Texas.

 

[HisArpy]

Yes, I’m sure you think it’s a victory to deny people fair representation in Texas.

I don't live in Texas so Texas district maps shouldn't affect ME or limit my representation in our government.

That you seem to believe that fair representation is somehow related to the politics in other polities only makes me wonder if Canada's district maps should be included in the calculus for drawing US State district maps. Or maybe we should look at Africa's maps. China's? I mean, there's bound to be districts out there which were drawn specifically to discriminate so we should do the same, right?

What's the old saying? Two wrongs don't make a right? With your level of TDS, not only will you commit two wrongs, you'd do it just to take away my Right.

 

[eric_erosfan]

I don't live in Texas so Texas district maps shouldn't affect ME or limit my representation in our government.

That you seem to believe that fair representation is somehow related to the politics in other polities only makes me wonder if Canada's district maps should be included in the calculus for drawing US State district maps. Or maybe we should look at Africa's maps. China's? I mean, there's bound to be districts out there which were drawn specifically to discriminate so we should do the same, right?

What's the old saying? Two wrongs don't make a right? With your level of TDS, not only will you commit two wrongs, you'd do it just to take away my Right.

That is naive thinking. Your rights are absolutely affected when states deny representation in their states. It tips the balance in the federal Congress that tells you what you can or can't do in your own state.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Yes, I'm sure you think it's a victory to deny people fair representation merely because another State is doing something you don't like.

I certainly do! You gotta problem with that, counselor?

 

[RobDownSouth]

That is naive thinking. Your rights are absolutely affected when states deny representation in their states. It tips the balance in the federal Congress that tells you what you can or can't do in your own state.

I found out in 2024 that my solid blue neighborhood in Texas had been cracked in half and my half was inserted into a new Texas district specifically gerrymandered to "crack" Houston. Shufflin' and Grinnin' Wes Hunt is now my Congressman....he got some Big Plans though, he's running campaign ads for US Senate on TV, hoping to split that the Texas general public is sick of sleepy John Cornyn AND Ken Paxson, the Texas attorney general who admitted sodomizing his 18 year old legislative intern anally in court documents. He claimed it was a "Texas Legislature Tradition".

 

[YDB95]

I found out in 2024 that my solid blue neighborhood in Texas had been cracked in half and my half was inserted into a new Texas district specifically gerrymandered to "crack" Houston. Shufflin' and Grinnin' Wes Hunt is now my Congressman....he got some Big Plans though, he's running campaign ads for US Senate on TV, hoping to split that the Texas general public is sick of sleepy John Cornyn AND Ken Paxson, the Texas attorney general who admitted sodomizing his 18 year old legislative intern anally in court documents. He claimed it was a "Texas Legislature Tradition".

The more the Republicans spread themselves thin in Texas, the more of their own incumbents are going to end up endangered as demographic changes continue. We saw the same thing in Virginia, where the Republicans gerrymandered the state legislative districts to kingdom come, and the Dems ended up picking off a bunch of their incumbents a few cycles later.

 

[MajorRewrite]

I don't live in Texas so Texas district maps shouldn't affect ME or limit my representation in our government.

That you seem to believe that fair representation is somehow related to the politics in other polities only makes me wonder if Canada's district maps should be included in the calculus for drawing US State district maps. Or maybe we should look at Africa's maps. China's? I mean, there's bound to be districts out there which were drawn specifically to discriminate so we should do the same, right?

What's the old saying? Two wrongs don't make a right? With your level of TDS, not only will you commit two wrongs, you'd do it just to take away my Right.

You support gerrymandering in red states and oppose it in blue states, because you’re a mindless MAGA sheep.

Stable genius.