• DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
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      Getting rid of the electoral college does not change anything about gerrymandering. The EC is for electing president. Gerrymandering is only possible for electing district representatives. But yeah, one step at a time.

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        It drives people in areas where they feel their vote doesn’t matter to have incentive to vote. It’s not necessarily gerrymandering, but it’s a voter suppression tool for sure and needs to go.

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          I even went out of the way to add “one step at a time” to make it clear I agree it is a good change, just not related to gerrymandering and you still feel the need to state the obvious? 😩

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        thats why we need to be rid of it. treat us all like a single district with no racial/ethnic restrictions prohibiting any legal voters from excercising their right to vote