My Spin: The 4th Most Gerrymandered State in the U.S.
Perhaps it is time North Carolina consider joining the 26 other states that allow citizen-initiated ballot referendums, where a specified number of signatures can request a direct vote of the people, effectively circumventing the legislatur
By Tom Campbell
How does it strike you to learn that North Carolina is the 4th most gerrymandered state in the U.S? Your vote doesn’t count as much as another person. Said more plainly, our elections are rigged.
A comprehensive study conducted by the Harvard ALARM (Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology) project studied the 44 states in which there was more than one congressional district and determined that North Carolina trails only Texas, California and Florida in manipulating voting districts to arrive at pre-ordained election results. These conclusions were reached after thousands of computer-generated runs.
