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Sunday, April 22, 2018


                                         Is Our Vote Even Worth Anything?

This election year we can expect to hear a lot about Congressional district gerrymandering, which is when political parties redraw district boundaries to give themselves an electoral advantage.

What I don't understand is, how can this be allowed? From what I can see, to pass a law on equal rights and justice, to pass a law on gun safety in the country, to pass a law on education for all, to pass a law on minor crime convicts to be able to receive aide from the government you need a 2/3 vote but gerrymandering, denying citizens of a fair and equal opportunity to have their voices hear through their votes, there is no law against that? 

Is any part of the system made for the citizens protection? This sounds like the government ensuring their wellbeing, there bottom line, making sure that their seats remain ' their seats'. According to the this article, we can change that, we might not be able to stop them from gerrymandering, but when we are being governed by individuals who has their own interest and not that of its citizens, we have a right to have them replaces with better individuals. Let them know that this is not ok. Every vote counts, so let districts be divided in a manner that won't have me guessing the figure that's being represented, is it a dragon, is it a butterfly? NO? It's our votes being distributed evenly. i'm not even gonna mention the foolishness of Electorial votes

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you completely.Especially with the 2016 elections people were upset with the way the results turned out to be. Not only that other people/countries interfering with the votes.

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