Worst Gerrymandering
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c9Just found this awesome/awful image of six badly gerrymandered congressional districts in the US. Gerrymandering is the redrawing of electoral boundaries to effect a change in voting patterns -- for example, to put all the blacks or evangelicals in one place or to spread them out, which dramatically changes potential results. *sigh*
You can see maps of Canada's ridings on the Elections Canada Electoral Districts site. I don't think Canada has many bad ones, since Elections Canada is independent (despite what the Tories currently are claiming in court). Examples of a few ridings: my riding of Toronto Danforth, our largest riding of Nunavut, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's riding of Calgary Southwest -- for fun, check out the very short candidates list! Also, here's a giant map of the results from the last election (PDF).
You can see maps of Canada's ridings on the Elections Canada Electoral Districts site. I don't think Canada has many bad ones, since Elections Canada is independent (despite what the Tories currently are claiming in court). Examples of a few ridings: my riding of Toronto Danforth, our largest riding of Nunavut, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's riding of Calgary Southwest -- for fun, check out the very short candidates list! Also, here's a giant map of the results from the last election (PDF).
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Date: 2008-09-16 11:38 am (UTC)There's so much in the US that just doesn't make any sense to me. Voting for judges, for example. I understand the arguments, I just can't imagine.
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Date: 2008-09-16 12:05 pm (UTC)But, for all its faults, America was well ahead of its time in the 1700s. There's a reason America "worked." It was framed by (what I believe to be) one of the most brilliant and groundbreaking documents of all time - the US Constitution.