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Thursday, October 21st, 2021

Texas Republicans pass voting maps that entrench power of whites

Author:     Sam Levin
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Tue 19 Oct 2021 15.45 EDT
 Link: Texas Republicans pass voting maps that entrench power of whites
Stephan:   Today the Demcrats in the Senate who, against their better judgment, allowed Senator Joe Manchin to redraft The Freedom to Vote Act, because he told them he would get 10 Republicans to vote for it if his fellow Democrats would let him do that came up for a vote -- and not a single Republican voted for it. How much clearer does it have to get for Americans before they understand the Republican Party wants the form of voting to continue, but not he substance. Basically what Putin has in Russia. As Independent Senator Angus King says, Republicans represent only 24% of the American population, and they are engineering democracy so they have control of government for a generation. Meanwhile at the state level, as this article about Texas shows, Republicans at the state level are also working to assure Republican Whites can always dominate that state, even though they are a minority.
The 2021 Texas legislative session Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune

Texas Republicans are on the verge of enacting new voting maps that would entrench the state’s Republican and white majority even as its non-white population grows rapidly.

Texas Republicans approved the congressional plan on Monday evening, sending it to Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, who is expected to sign the measure.

The Texas maps offer perhaps the most brazen effort in the US so far this year to draw new district lines to benefit one political party, a practice called gerrymandering. The proposed congressional map would blunt growing Democratic strength in the Texas suburbs. Texas Republicans already have a 23-13 seat advantage in the state’s congressional delegation and the new maps would double the number of safe GOP congressional seats in the state from 11 to 22, according to the Washington Post.

Democrats would have 12 safe seats, up from eight. There would be just one competitive congressional district in the state, down from 12.

The map also clearly blunts the growing political strength of minorities in Texas. […]

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2 Comments

  1. Tom N on Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 5:36 am

    And Virginia is changing voting rules to favor democrats just two weeks before a gubernatorial race. Both parties are guilty of playing the election manipulation game. It’s nothing new but it needs to end.

  2. Mary on Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 10:21 am

    Sometimes changes done to cheat the system end up backfiring evantually.