If you drive west to Garrett County, Maryland, and ask people what Potomac is like, they usually say they don’t spend much time “downstate.” They watch the Pittsburgh nightly news and, on Sundays, root for the Steelers.
When I asked people in the tony Washington suburb of Potomac about Oakland, the Garrett County seat, they unfailingly replied, “Where’s that?”
Maryland is a ragtag jumble of mansions and mountain towns—it’s normal not to know much about what goes on 170 miles away. But the people who live along the Youghiogheny River and the ones who take the Red Line into DC each morning have something in common: They are all residents of Maryland’s 6th Congressional District. Which means these strangers-turned-bedfellows share something else: They are the most gerrymandered people in America.
At least they are for now. In March, the Supreme Court heard a groundbreaking challenge to the district’s wild contours, brought by seven Republican voters. These Marylanders argue that the Grand Canyon–size district—in a state whose seven others would barely cover the map of Massachusetts—was redrawn to punish the region’s GOP voters.
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5 comments:
Just goes to show that liberals can't win a fair contest - they have to cheat to even come close!
The HildaBeast cheated big-time - rigged the primary, got dead people to vote, and got some to vote more than once.
Thanks goodness for the electoral college!
Well this is Md. you know.
Is this not illegally changing votes? Is this not a violation of voting laws? Nail all those Liberal Democrats for voter gerrymandering.
They're all redrawn to minimize the effect of GOP voters. Maryland is full of gerrymandered districts.
It’s all rigged to keep the GOP from winning offices. Let’s not forget the voter fraud to along with dead people voting or people voting more then once.
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