A lawsuit filed with Wisconsin’s newly liberal-controlled state Supreme Court argues that Republican-drawn legislative maps are unconstitutional and must be redone.

A lawsuit filed Wednesday asks Wisconsin’s newly liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to throw out Republican-drawn legislative maps as unconstitutional, the latest legal challenge of many nationwide that could upset political boundary lines before the 2024 election.

        • cassetti@kbin.social
          10·
          11 months ago

          It’s a classic infographic which has been floating around the internet for a long time. Hopefully you’re not trolling and did learn something - because more people need to understand the concept.

          Because otherwise you end up with districts like this one in Texas which purposely segments the community to alter the votes in one’s favor:

          Texas 2nd district

          Fun fact about Gerrymandering, it was named after former Massachusetts governor and founding father Elbridge Gerry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

      • ashok36@lemmy.world
        12·
        11 months ago

        I like this graphic but I wish it didn’t use red and blue. I feel like this would be more effective in showing republicans how bad districting hurts everyone if it was green and yellow or orange and purple.

        • kryptonicus@lemmy.world
          8·
          11 months ago

          I agree. However, I think most republicans completely understand the implications of political gerrymandering, and embrace it with enthusiastically open arms.

        • foggy@lemmy.world
          7·
          11 months ago

          You’re not wrong but in the example the “good” one at least respects the majority. That’s the point of the illustration, that a minority can be a majority with bad gerrymandering, and I think the image illustrates that just fine.

      • Buelldozer@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        The “Blue Wins” District Map is objectively worse than the “Red Wins” Distract Map as it has no politically opposed Districts, effectively silencing 40% of the Precincts. The “Red Wins” Distract Map is certainly skewed but is superior because it doesn’t silence its opposition.

        In short what that picture is calling “Good” represents the same dissent silencing behavior that people are rightly mad at Conservatives about. “Fair Representation”, as presented in the article, looks a lot more like “Red Wins” and almost nothing like “Blue Wins”.