Under legal pressure to address Wisconsin’s “Swiss cheese” and oddly shaped districts, the Legislature approved redrawn maps that promise to create a new dynamic in a state known for its pivotal role in national politics.

Under legal pressure to address Wisconsin’s “Swiss cheese” and oddly shaped districts, the Legislature approved redrawn maps that promise to create a new dynamic in a state known for its pivotal role in national politics.

Wisconsin’s dinosaur-shaped legislative district could soon be history.

The curiously drawn district and other oddities associated with the state’s extreme gerrymandering would be erased in new voting maps passed this week by the Wisconsin Legislature.

A state Supreme Court decision finally forced Wisconsin Republicans to cede an advantage they enjoyed for more than a decade with maps that made the state one of the nation’s foremost examples of gerrymandering.

  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    10 months ago

    Doesn’t Ohio have a thing where people can change the constitution with just a petition and enough votes on the ballot?

    • derf82@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      10 months ago

      It does, and a petition is collected signatures. But it still needs to dodge Republican interference (they will probably make the ballot language prejudicial), negative ads about “unelected bureaucrats”, and actually pass.

      • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        10 months ago

        They passed constitutional abortion rights though, kinda seems like gerrymandering might actually be something that could pass

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      It does and we have… Multiple fucking times. They didn’t get the message (really obnoxious in the case of the most recent one where they ignored the Ohio Supreme Court because they knew they could wait one cycle and have control of it), we’re trying again soon with a “you don’t get a say in map making anymore Mr. Politician” approach soon.