Why are legislative leaders so afraid of fairer elections?
http://www.jeffersonpost.com/opinion/9287/why-are-legislative-leaders-so-afraid-of-fairer-elections
The latest news from the federal courts about the unconstitutional racially gerrymandered General Assembly districts and the response to it from legislative leaders makes one thing clearer than ever.
The folks in charge of the House and Senate are terribly afraid of what will happen if our elections are fairer, if every district is not gerrymandered by race and partisan considerations to all but guarantee that their supermajorities will remain in place, and if the voters have a slightly better chance at electing who they want instead of having their representatives chosen for them...
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