It's A Centrist Country

Gerrymandering Is the Problem

Listened to Gavin Baker on the All In Podcast on my way from Chicago to Grand Marais. We were in Milwaukee and Chicago helping kids with grandkids, and caught a Cubs game.

The Brewers are hot. We have a pennant race, but I digress.

Gavin tried to make the point that a new centrist party might have a chance. Currently, both parties have extremes representing them. Virtually everyone decries the lack of centrism inside our national representative bodies.

However, the same is true for state representative bodies, and often local representative bodies.

Why?

It’s not the political parties.

It’s gerrymandering.

It’s the rules we use to vote.

It’s the messy voter rolls.

Gerrymandering eliminates competition. Many of the rules that have been put into place on the way we vote eliminate competition as well. The rules don’t prohibit cheating; they encourage and incentivize it.

Mail-in balloting, eons of early voting, motor voting, and all the stuff put in place that seem to make it “more fair” don’t increase turnout or fairness. They allow centralized bureaucracies to make the decision on who wins or loses. This isn’t just in elections between competing parties, but in primary elections as well.

Low turnout allows extremists to win. In Chicago, a Democrat communist mayor is elected in 2023, with how much turnout? 35%. In NYC, a Democrat communist mayor looks like he will win the election. What was the turnout? Less than 30%.

Those are primaries where a Republican doesn’t have a chance.

Gerrymandering does the same thing. It eliminates competition. When I moved to Nevada, the Democrats instituted a new electoral map, and it was heavily gerrymandered to favor Democrats. Gerrymandering encourages extreme candidates to run because they have a built-in voter advantage. It’s like being born on third base.

Illinois has some of the most gerrymandered political districts in the US. So does Maryland. So does California. So does NY State. Gavin Newsom was whining about how Texas and Florida are gerrymandering against Democrats. They probably are, but can you blame them? We are at political war. It is only a question of time before Wisconsin gets redistricted because of a Supreme Court election.

Our House of Representatives would not be as split as it is if state districts were drawn competitively. Instead, there are DEI carve-outs to make sure certain classes of people are represented, which allows central planners to draw districts to install puppet candidates.

The US Senate wouldn’t be split with a repeal of the 17th Amendment. How do you know that? Look at which party dominates which state legislature, and you will get your answer.

Elon Musk doesn’t need a third party. He needs to take over the Republican Party and run candidates who will actually vote for less government spending. Funny thing, gerrymandering might enable Elon to do it more easily than it might have been.

When I moved to Nevada, I walked my neighborhood helping Chuck Muth’s Pigpen Project to clean up voter rolls in the state. Nevada had been taken over by the Harry Reid Machine, and of course, they had very messy voter rolls. Democrats do that because they need them to cheat. Here is what Muth had to say recently:

It all started in March 2024 when – using research of official government records – we identified an individual who appeared to have “double voted” in Texas and Nevada in the 2022 general election.

We then filed an official Election Integrity Violation Report (EIVR) with the Secretary of State. It investigated. And lo and behold, the voter ended up admitting to having unlawfully voted twice.

The Secretary of State referred the investigation to Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) – who, for unknown reasons, chose not to prosecute.

Onward…

Last July – BEFORE the 90-day “blackout period” – we submitted thousands of challenges to voters who filed a change-of-address with the post office. (Yes, our voter files ARE that dirty!)

But Secretary Aguilar rejected all of them, arguing they were based on data research and not on “personal knowledge.”

Then the 2024 general election came and went.

This past March we then filed 881 EIVR’s based on the fact that the voters in question had filed a change-of-address with the post office before the election but nevertheless were recorded as casting a mail-in ballot.

Aguilar refused to investigate; again claiming we lacked “personal knowledge” that the voter had moved – even though no such requirement exists for EIVRs in statute or code and his office investigated the March 2024 voter fraud complaint which was based on the exact same type of research.

This flies in the face of what Aguilar himself has said about fraud complaints…

“It is our commitment to the law and to the people of this state that every (Election Integrity Violation) report is carefully reviewed so that if there is even a single case of potential fraud identified, we conduct an investigation and, if necessary, refer it for criminal prosecution.”

Talk about speaking with a forked tongue out of both sides of your mouth!

He hasn’t quit, and I hope there are efforts in your state to clean up voter rolls. As an election judge in Chicago, I saw firsthand how the rules of engagement were written to enable cheating. They don’t do it after the election in Chicago anymore. They do it before the candidates even submit their petitions.

Why is it that it is only Republicans are the ones going for voter ID, transparency, clean voter rolls, and less gerrymandering?

The conclusion can only be that Democrats want to centrally plan it all and cheat to get it done.