It looks familiar to Jim Jordans district. For the love of God, won't someone run against him!!!

I wouldn’t count their votes. Since they wanna play that game.

Oh come on! 🤦🏼‍♀️ That is ridiculous 😒

How does a rational person look at this and say "fair, yeah that looks real fair"?

The TX Constitution has some mandate that's supposed to prevent fragmenting of "communities of interest" (I think that's the verbiage). Austin should qualify, but Republicans have carved Austin up with impunity, because TX is nakedly corrupt.

Ai as a political weapon... what's next FFS!

ffs. smh

Dan Crenshaws district for years now. They've been at this a long time.

Texas, please define insanity using a map: Texas, please define duplicitous using a map: Texas, please define cheating using a map: Texas, please define disenfranchisement using a map: Texas, please define racist motivation using a map:

The history of it is fascinating: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwHi...

As a Canadian it puzzles me that electoral boundaries are not set by an independent electoral commission. Politicians should never be the ones to draw the maps, it's a conflict of interest.

They are in most blue states, and not in red ones.

Absolutely ridiculous

Wow !!! This is insane as 🌮’s executive orders ….

Again, why in the hell do you allow politicians to draw their own districts? Nowhere on the planet is that normal.

Brings back "fond" memories of Goofy kicking Donald in Pennsylvania (look it up).

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Look at mine, which TN Republicans gerrymandered in 2022. Looks like a cartoon horse wearing a hat.

That's a perfect 47 sided square. Nothing illegal about that!

I want my district to look like a cancerous fallopian tube section. make it so.

yeah that's probably for normal and not racist reasons

I bet local governments are intentionally doing zoning and building permitting of more expensive property just for the sake of political zone mapping. Forget any of the normal criteria used for city planning. Making sure you can keep the other side from voting against you is what really matters.

Source: Am in district

Three guesses who lives in this very specific slice of the metroplex.

You have to draw the line somewhere. Some of these peculiar-looking districts are made of remnants between other districts. There’s no reason districts have to be neat little squares. People don’t live in neat little squares.

I think it’s bad that in much of the United States, politicians draw electoral boundaries for partisan advantage and other manipulation. That contrasts to other countries where simpler maps are drawn by independent commissions, a better system in my view.

“Simpler maps” heavily favor Republicans. It’s easy to draw “simple maps” that put Democratic voters in a handful of constituencies that are 80% Democratic, while a bunch of districts are 52-48 Republican. Nice and neat, but the results of the election do not represent the will of the people.

What’s so unique about America that justifies partisan map drawing instead of the way basically every other developed country does it?

Many other countries are not required to draw new constituencies at all - so you have 100+-year-old districts that are unbalanced in terms of population.

Also, other countries may not have partisan voting tendencies so closely aligned with geography and population density, as the U.S. has this century. It wasn’t always this way.

In Canada, cities also lean left and rural areas lean right and we still have independent non-partisan commissions drawing boundaries rather than letting politicians draw them for partisan gain.

But if districts aren’t drawn for partisan gain, then there is as a result partisan gain by the other party. I’ve studied this issue, read research, conducted interviews. I conclude there is no non-partisan or “fair” way to do this.

Republicans are currently trying to gerrymander Texas to get more seats so it seems like gerrymandering is a bad thing.

What they are in fact doing is creating more seats that are potentially in play.

Even if a Republican wins, it won’t be a “safe” seat. Members may have to be less insane.

It’s absolutely crazy that this is up to politicians to decide!

My old district in Illinois. Illinois 9th. I love Representative Jan Schakowsky. She’s fantastic. But… Every district in the country is gerrymandered. Every one. Until we have non partisan commissions to draw the maps everyone is effected.

Exactly. In my country we have independent commissions create electoral districts.

Perfectly normal way to draw boundaries, following natural features or established communities or longstanding political borders I’m sure.

Two cities in one 😂

I mean Australian boundaries are logical, but some of them are huge, like Kennedy. Its total area is 567,377km2. So just marginally smaller than the state of Texas.

Oh yeah, it has 123,724 electors in that division. A population density of 0.21 people per km2...

It is represented by one member of parliament - the same MP they have had since 1993. And he's... yeah. (This was his reaction to being asked about his Lebanese heritage after announcing he would be front and centre attending an anti-immigration rally this weekend) www.youtube.com/shorts/NXOgA...

Well, he seems nice.

Yes, the drunk uncle you avoid

My uncle, when he got absolutely wasted, would give us money. The next day, he would ask for his money back. We would reply, what money? Lol

Bob Katter’s silliness is great though (a comic relief for politics). His speech about man-eating crocodiles when asked about gay marriage is quite something (though if you’re concerned with crocodiles then why waste time voting against gay marriage). bsky.app/profile/bats...

Except it doesn't change the fact he's a truly horrible person

Ohh he sure is. But at least we can laugh at has horrid ness unlike some other horrid people like Trump. Also the Katter Party doesn’t exactly have any other sitting MPs, so he’s a lone crazy wolf.

Yep. But then we also have Pauline Hanson, who's a less humorous female version of him.

Oh yeah, in that clip he's saying he wants the names of everyone who attended pro-Palestine rallies last weekend, and wants them kicked out of the country. That would include me. Cool and normal.

This reminds me of this quote going around 👇👇👇

Indi is weirder it borders Melbourne and Albury.

This is my district, and I hate it! This is voter disenfranchisement.

Pathetic. Like everything else in texas

trump’s wang

Not as extreme but we still have this nonsense in Newmarket on the edge of Suffolk. Famous for its racecourse which naturally spans 2 counties as one end is in Cambridgeshire! Stuff like this used to very common with our counties. Middlesex/ Hertfordshire border, Lancashire as examples.

Scotland thankfully tidied up their counties and far more consistently than England's but Cromartyshire deserves a very special mention. Just imagining having to run such a territory and in such a remote part of Scotland. So crazy it's incredible!

Lol, okay, so that is wild even by Texas standards.

wow - this makes a mockery of the concept

What an obscure reference to see: went to primary school, there!

Wouldn’t be great if it backfired & people didn’t vote for the insane GOP

This is so ridiculous.

This is a pretty good visual argument for making ALL congressional representatives "at large."

right side bit looks like great britain

bsky.app/profile/blue...

LOL

This map was drawn by my 3 year old Gerry. Thanks. Mr. Mander

Should be illegal

It is in most civilized countries like Canada and Australia.

Its kinda weird. The history of gerrymandering is kinda wild. Like the supreme court ruling that the district map wasn't... Gerrymandered enough

I wasnt kidding: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwHi...

I fucking hate this cuntry.

i wouldn't have thought cheating and theft were so central to the american "spirit"

It looks like a salamander that's been run over by a car.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE FINE WITH THIS LEVEL OF BRAINLESS CORRUPTION?? Truly alarming.

Why does this look like an upside down hooka pipe?

Drawing voting districts needs to be taken out of the hands of politicians and put into the hands of independent, non-partisan panels whose work is then verified and approved by state courts. All 50 states.

Amen to this

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I don’t get your point. What’s the point? Looks normal to me. Nothin to see here, my fellow …

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It would make a nice map of a lake.

We MUST demand to choose our EMPLOYEES. NOT BE THEIR CHOSEN SLAVES

No good reason for that district to look like that for sure.

Geographic Crime 🫆

GOP folks, hey, I can see my house!

"hey guys, FYI here's where all the poor people live!"

We all live in a van by the same river and in the same electoral district.

This is really f+cked up!

“Won’t this map make us look ridiculous?” “Are you woke or something?”

Fucking Texas is nothing but an Oligarch Nazi shitpit. Give it back to Mexico and be DONE WITH IT.

Solved it!🙂

Somebody’s gotta get TX under control in a BIG way.

You don't think Illinois has been doing the same for years?

Isn’t it crazy that America allows this? Other countries either have independent commissions drawing electoral boundaries or some form of proportional representation that avoids the problem.

We have something like this in Maryland for Andy Harris. He's another one of those GOP mofos who hasn't had a town hall in years.

FFS

F’n losers