💬 Opinion 6h ago · David Bernstein

The Awful Virginia Redistricting Referendum

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Yesterday, Virginians voted by a narrow margin to allow the state to deviate from its normal redistricting rules. The plan is to redistrict state congressional districts to move the state from 6-5 Democrat/Republican to 10-1.
It's a crude partisan move, in response to similarly crude partisan moves by Republican states. That's not why I call the referendum awful.
Rather, it's because the referendum was written in such a way as to entirely obscure the purpose of the vote. Moreover, instead of usi

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