Gerrymandering Your Vote – Where to Draw the Line…
Gerrymandering Your Vote – Where to Draw the Line – Based upon Partisan & Racial Profiles to Create District Lines. All of this to dilute the vote of a minority or nonincumbent party to disenfranchise voters. Recent US Supreme Court ruling in the case of S. Carolina vs NAACP exemplifies that it is okay to disenfranchise for partisan purposes, as long as the main purpose is not based upon race. A cloaked inquiry by the US Supreme Court now allows states to gerrymander while taking race into account, as long as a state legislature’s primary purpose for redistricting – doesn’t do so for the predominant purpose of excluding or limiting black votes.