Voters say *this* is the biggest election problem in the country

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Amid the ongoing fight over the recently passed Georgia election law -- and the subsequent decision by Major League Baseball to pull its All-Star Game out of Atlanta this summer -- you might reasonably conclude that efforts to restrict access to the ballot box would be the biggest election issue in the country.

Or if not voter disenfranchisement, then voter fraud -- particularly as former President Donald Trump continues to try to discredit the 2020 election despite zero actual evidence of fraud.

And you would be wrong! On both counts!

It's actually gerrymandering -- the drawing of outlandish legislative and congressional districts for purely political reasons -- that bugs people the most.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/voters-say-this-is-the-biggest-election-problem-in-the-country/ar-BB1fkBwO

[dhol82]

1. I actually agree with this

And am surprised that ordinary citizens feel the same.
Makes me feel positive about the future.

[Irish_Dem]

4. I know, seems so strange that mainstream US opinion is now coinciding with my long held beliefs.

I guess I better start moving my thoughts forward. Never been mainstream before.

[lagomorph777]

7. I'm surprised that most people even know what Gerrymandering is!

It is a huge problem; hard for me to say whether it's worse than corporate cash, voter suppression, etc, but all of these feed into and enable each other.

[dhol82]

8. True enough

I agree that it is surprising that a large proportion of the population is aware of it.
Perhaps it’s all the noise we have been making about it over the last years?

[El Supremo]

2. Wrong on all counts.

Campaign contributions has been the biggest problem for decades. 1st amendment protection? BS.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Amend. So many of these racist thugs / republicans would have never made the cut unless

the boundaries were screwed up big time. There needs to be a national referendum on establishing such boundaries and NOT by any political party, especially since we see the republicans trying to fix future election results for the next 100 years. Let the voters decide.

[magicarpet]

5. Voter's Rights beyond the reach of the filibuster....

Doesn't HR-1 address the issue of gerrymandering ? I thought Obama and former AG Eric Holder were all over that issue

Maybe Obama and Holder ought to contact Manchin and the other Dem senate hold out and change the filibuster so HR-1 and the other bill (The John Lewis Voter's Rights) can be passed before 2022 + 2024 with 51 votes rather than 60 total senate votes.

[magicarpet]

6. House Bill - HB-1 here at link,...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text

[dhol82]

9. That would be a good choice.

Will it happen?