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SCOTUS ruled that states can Gerrymander to their heart's content, stating that it is a political thing, not a legal thing. So how does this effect our so called democracy, it certainly ends the idea of one man one vote that seems essential to our democracy. Whether its Dems or GOP in control of the state's legislators, they can continue to set districts that even if they lose the total number of votes they can control who is in the state legislator, and thus who goes to Washington. And they can change things each 10 years to insure they keep such control. In some state the controlling party has received 45% of the total votes for seats in the state legislator, but through gerrymandering, got over 55% of the seats. That means in those states that your vote is meaningless in many gerrymandered districts. And there are simple ways of ending such political gerrymandering, but our parties do not wish to give up their positions of power just to bring back a better democracy. I think that perhaps it is time to make state political candidates go on the record vowing to end the practice as SCOTUS will not protect our right to have our votes count