Gerrymandering – Our Public Policy Film/Discussion this month

Did you know that there are fewer competitive elections in the US than in the USSR? Almost all election districts in the US are “incumbent protected”, forever-safe seats, carved out so that the results are assured to one party or another. This is the year of re-districting across the US based on the 2010 census.

"Quietly, without much comment or notice, the practice of gerrymandering has transformed from a dismal-but-bearable tradition of occasional opportunism into a cancer eating at the heart of democracy itself, rendering our votes nearly meaningless in countless constituencies across the land....nearly all U.S. Congressional districts -- along with state assembly and senate seats -- have been gerrymandered in one direction or another." -- David Brin. Ph.D., http://www.davidbrin.com/gerrymandering1.htm

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