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Festivito

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7. I too wonder if I understand it.

Reply to angrychair (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 29, 2026, 01:05 PM

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Actual packing a minority into one district is okay as long as no one proves that was the intention.

So instead of two or three competitive representations out of six, the minority gets one representative sent to washington. The partisan gerrymanders get five out of six. As long as they don't make it look like, it was intentional.

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