Do what now? The republican's are redrawing STATE boundaries? how do they do that?
Yeah, that was the wrong word (I claim fatigue, and a little too much Pinot Gris).
Gerrymandering is of course, rigging elections by boundary changes. What I was trying to say is vote rigging, for example, by voter suppression techniques such as
1. Having only a single polling place for a city of over 13,000 and placing it miles outside city limits, and an hour's walk from the nearest bus stop, in order to discourage poorer people from voting (Dodge City).
2. Exact match ID that results in ballot rejection if there is the slightest inconsistency, e.g. missed grammar such as a missing hyphen or dash, or a missing apostrophe in a name such as O'Connor or O'Donnel, or spelling a street name McDonald instead of MacDonald. (Georgia).
3. The rejection of ballots or the cancelling registration if the voter cannot provide a residential street address. This one was deliberately aimed at Native Americans living on reservations because reservations don't usually have street addresses (North Dakota).
4. The passing of laws to restrict early voting. This one is deliberately aimed at African Americans who are less likely to have flexible working hours and therefore struggle to take time off on a weekday to vote (North Carolina).
5. Passing a law requiring a photo ID to vote. By itself, this is fair enough, but not if you then almost immediately close down dozens of DMV offices in minority neighbourhoods making it harder for residents to obtain voter IDs (Alabama).
There are dozens more examples where incumbent GOP State politicians have taken measures aimed deliberately at Blacks, Hispanics and other minorities to make it difficult for them to register and vote.
