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- Jun 29, 2002
Just been having a look at some US election results for the House Of Representatives and started looking at the maps of the states.
Here's the results from North Carolina which I've looked at pretty much at random.
Overall votes in the House races in North Carolina for Democrats are 2,216,294, for Republicans 2,092,957. So a fractionally higher amount of people voted for Democrats. The results of who got elected? 3 Democrats, 10 Republicans. Look at the map on the right of the districts. They've basically gave Democrats 3 huge seats which make zero geographical sense and which Democrats are winning by over 50% of the vote, and giving Republicans much smaller but still safe majorities.
Why on earth are states allowed to run elections this way without oversight by the federal government? Combine this with vote suppression efforts and the Republicans are looking like people with zero interest in democracy (and I'm quite aware that Democratic led state legislatures probably do the same thing, although it didn't look that obvious in Illinois which I checked to compare to North Carolina by either geography or results).
Here's the results from North Carolina which I've looked at pretty much at random.
Overall votes in the House races in North Carolina for Democrats are 2,216,294, for Republicans 2,092,957. So a fractionally higher amount of people voted for Democrats. The results of who got elected? 3 Democrats, 10 Republicans. Look at the map on the right of the districts. They've basically gave Democrats 3 huge seats which make zero geographical sense and which Democrats are winning by over 50% of the vote, and giving Republicans much smaller but still safe majorities.
Why on earth are states allowed to run elections this way without oversight by the federal government? Combine this with vote suppression efforts and the Republicans are looking like people with zero interest in democracy (and I'm quite aware that Democratic led state legislatures probably do the same thing, although it didn't look that obvious in Illinois which I checked to compare to North Carolina by either geography or results).
