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3 years ago

Why was gerrymandering made illegal?

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Gerrymandering is basically a masked election fraud: you make sure that the election will have the outcome you want, not the voters want. It should be illegal in a country with a properly functioning democracy: else people would get discouraged from voting and democracy would crumble.

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Economic Reform

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