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Supreme Court sends redistricting law back to South Carolina. sm


Posted: Apr 20, 2015

A big victory for voting rights and against gerrymandering of voting districts!

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No place for redistricting in a fair democratic society - Justice

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It is pretty sickening all the ways politicians come up with to make sure elections are not fair. We have a very diverse state and the redistricting has been done so that there is no common sense to it. The heavy industry area is combined with the tourist area, the farming area has been combined with an urban area. I am not sure the districts are even contiguous anymore.

If any politician truly cared about democracy in the US, Citizens United and redistricting would both be history.

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