DeSantis unveils his racist gerrymander

It’s in violation of Florida law so despite being heavily Republican in nature, I don’t see how the Florida Supreme Court will allow this map.

 

They absolutely will. DeSantis is currently all three branches of government. James Madison’s rolling in his grave.

 

Actually, it is much more similar to this map, which is their Republican gerrymander map:

Florida - The Atlas Of Redistricting

Look at Tampa, for example. The map you linked contained 2 Democratic leaning competitive districts (a Tampa-based district and a St. Pete based district), 1 Republican leaning competitive district (a Northern Pinellas/Hillsborough district), and a safe Republican district (south of the Bay). The Republican Gerrymander map contains 3 Republican districts (non-St. Pete Pinellas, Northern Hillsborough, and south of the Bay) and a Democratic vote sink (St. Pete and Tampa). What does Desantis' map contain? 3 Republican districts and a Democratic vote sink.

 

Again, your concern here is that you prefer cracking as a tool of gerrymandering to packing. This map is, with the exception of the Tampa vote sink, mostly a product of cracking (e.g., let's divide the Orlando majority black district into two to make sure that there isn't a majority black district in Orlando). But both are gerrymandering. Which is why his map doesn't match the partisan breakdowns of the map you provided, because that was made without regard to partisan breakdown, whereas this map was entirely about partisan breakdown.

 

Except it’s still in violation of Florida law regarding minority districts.

 

Win at all cost politics of the right. Where is the attempt to represent people’a will?

 

You don't count as people if you don't vote GOP.

 

SECTION 21. Standards for establishing legislative district boundaries.—In establishing legislative district boundaries:
(a) No apportionment plan or district shall be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent; and districts shall not be drawn with the intent or result of denying or abridging the equal opportunity of racial or language minorities to participate in the political process or to diminish their ability to elect representatives of their choice; and districts shall consist of contiguous territory.
(b) Unless compliance with the standards in this subsection conflicts with the standards in subsection 1(a) or with federal law, districts shall be as nearly equal in population as is practicable; districts shall be compact; and districts shall, where feasible, utilize existing political and geographical boundaries.
(c) The order in which the standards within subsections 1(a) and (b) of this section are set forth shall not be read to establish any priority of one standard over the other within that subsection.

 

"Elections have consequences" - Barack Obama

 

Can someone provide a Cliff's Notes version of how gerrymandering works? I'm sure this has been explained, but I'm not up to snuff on this. Thanks

 

He wins most of these lately.

 

Actually he hasn’t.

 

Well, maybe he wrote his own Wikipedia entry but this seems like good record.

In 2020 and 2021, on behalf of the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee, Elias oversaw the state-by-state response to lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign contesting the 2020 presidential election results. Of the 64 cases, he won all but one minor case, which was later overturned in his favor.[4][5][6]

 

Thanks - so it's essentially tied to congressional seats. That helps.