The Conservatives Who Gutted the Voting Rights Act Are Now Challenging ‘One Person, One Vote’

[Beartracks]

46. You don't have to be a voter to be helped or harmed by the laws passed by the legislature.

Therefore, you shouldn't have to be a voter in order to be counted amongst the population of your Congressional District. Period. Congressionals represent EVERYone in their districts, not just the voters.

This is one of those whiny-ass cases where a conservative cooks up some reasonable-sounding excuse -- "only count eligible voters" -- in order to engineer something that damages representative democracy.

Another example, for that matter, was gutting the VRA on the general assumption that "racism in America is over because, look, we have a black man as President."

And a typical all-too-common example is gerrymandering that -- surprise -- benefits only Republicans.

By the way, that last example is why it's important to vote in mid-terms, people. When Democrats don't vote, it doesn't help just the Republican candidate -- it helps a whole lot of future Republican candidates, too.

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