12 Mar 2011 1:11 pm
Redistricting is perfectly acceptable.Elections do have consequences, you know.Whose fault is it that your party got beaten like a Frenchman in the last election?I am an unaffiliated voter, always have been. I don't have a party.Redistricting is fine if it's done fairly. Unfortunately it's usually not.Ask Tom Delay. Remember his mid-decade redistricting in 2003? It was the first time that Texas had ever undertaken a mid-decade redistricting that was not ordered by a court. Redistricting in Texas was traditionally done once every ten years, soon after the National Census.SCOTUS eventually found that one of the districts that Delay carved out (#23) constituted racial gerrymandering and was in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.