Gerrymander Watch: December 2012

Saturday, December 08, 2012

More Rigged Elections?

from Mother Jones
by Nick Baumann
Fri. Dec. 7th 2012

GOP Resurrects Plan to Rig Electoral College
..."now that Romney has been defeated, prominent GOPers are once again mulling rule changes that could make it harder for Democrats to win the White House—and easier for Republicans to claim Electoral College votes in states where they lose the popular vote.........

Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Not just Ohio

To put it another way, President Barack Obama won 53 percent of the votes in Pennsylvania but Democrats could win only 28 percent of the congressional seats.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/editorials/map-manipulation-gerrymandering-had-the-last-word-in-election-663917/#ixzz2E5btkvLU

Joe Hallett: Gerrymandering pushes General Assembly to the extremes

".....The day started when the Ohio Supreme Court continued its decennial complicity in a gerrymandering scheme that makes a mockery of representative government.....

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