and second, Add a judicial nominating commission please. The Texas Judicary is full of far right federalist society partisan hacks. I dont think Justices should get elected due to money and spending and having a judicial nominating commission to block out partisan far right judges would be very effective for an independent judiciary.
I am honestly very torn in regards to the independent redistricting. As much as i want that. I wont feel comfortable knowing that Republicans have gerrymandered a lot of southern states. I dont want really to go the route of "when they go low, we go high" Until the house and senate is able to introduce a bill on partisan gerrymandering or pass Proportional representation for congressional districts, i was hoping to lock down Texas. I am a big supporter of independent redistricting commissions and better yet Proportional representation as if you used proportional representation to draw house districts. Its almost impossible to pack and gerrymander the minority party and population out of power. You will be forced to have representation for the minority party under proportional representation.
Yeah, I am too, but I thought about it. Do we want normalcy or do we want vengeance? I asked myself that question and then I thought about the Fiddler on the Roof, and we want an end to extreme gerrymandering on all ends. But I agree about the judges.
i do too but this situation is gonna continue unless we find a long term solution. Even if we do pass a voting rights act federally and locally it still runs the risk of this nonsense being replicated in the future. To me its a band-aid to a long term problem. I would recommend to check political professor and scientist Lee Drutman on his readings on proportional representation and why it would be a much better long term solution in comparison to another voting rights act which i stress is also valid but i think PR is the better long term solution. A voting rights act or even a ban to me would be temporary remedy. Its not a matter of vengence for me personally but to block republicans from chipping away any further semblance of democracy we have until we can introduce a incredibly long term solution to avoid disasters like these in the future
if the house of representatives had a proportional representation system. MAGA would not be able to have influence enough to corrupt the republican party and corporate dems too. 19% of the population identify as MAGA and that also gives breathing room for "moderate republicans" and also populist progressives in the dem side. nor can they pack minority voters
Great list. Also, FYI, in Denton County the polls for early voting for the May 2 election were CLOSED on April 21st BECAUSE it was a state holiday, San Jacinto Day.
State wide voting access, 3 weeks and two weekends of early voting until Election Day (no taking 3 days off), one 24 hour voting site in each county, mail ballot for anyone who wants it, same day registration with a picture ID and water bill, lease, or closing documents. No purging (since you can update your registration same day and we have state wide voting)
and second, Add a judicial nominating commission please. The Texas Judicary is full of far right federalist society partisan hacks. I dont think Justices should get elected due to money and spending and having a judicial nominating commission to block out partisan far right judges would be very effective for an independent judiciary.
I am honestly very torn in regards to the independent redistricting. As much as i want that. I wont feel comfortable knowing that Republicans have gerrymandered a lot of southern states. I dont want really to go the route of "when they go low, we go high" Until the house and senate is able to introduce a bill on partisan gerrymandering or pass Proportional representation for congressional districts, i was hoping to lock down Texas. I am a big supporter of independent redistricting commissions and better yet Proportional representation as if you used proportional representation to draw house districts. Its almost impossible to pack and gerrymander the minority party and population out of power. You will be forced to have representation for the minority party under proportional representation.
Yeah, I am too, but I thought about it. Do we want normalcy or do we want vengeance? I asked myself that question and then I thought about the Fiddler on the Roof, and we want an end to extreme gerrymandering on all ends. But I agree about the judges.
i do too but this situation is gonna continue unless we find a long term solution. Even if we do pass a voting rights act federally and locally it still runs the risk of this nonsense being replicated in the future. To me its a band-aid to a long term problem. I would recommend to check political professor and scientist Lee Drutman on his readings on proportional representation and why it would be a much better long term solution in comparison to another voting rights act which i stress is also valid but i think PR is the better long term solution. A voting rights act or even a ban to me would be temporary remedy. Its not a matter of vengence for me personally but to block republicans from chipping away any further semblance of democracy we have until we can introduce a incredibly long term solution to avoid disasters like these in the future
if the house of representatives had a proportional representation system. MAGA would not be able to have influence enough to corrupt the republican party and corporate dems too. 19% of the population identify as MAGA and that also gives breathing room for "moderate republicans" and also populist progressives in the dem side. nor can they pack minority voters
Great list. Also, FYI, in Denton County the polls for early voting for the May 2 election were CLOSED on April 21st BECAUSE it was a state holiday, San Jacinto Day.
State wide voting access, 3 weeks and two weekends of early voting until Election Day (no taking 3 days off), one 24 hour voting site in each county, mail ballot for anyone who wants it, same day registration with a picture ID and water bill, lease, or closing documents. No purging (since you can update your registration same day and we have state wide voting)