TAP: NY has itsself some wicked state senate gerrymandering
Ok, not a newsflash. We know about how, for example, Joe Robach’s district is
gerrymandered to be more GOP-heavy (and to exclude Joe’s heavily Dem Maplewood birthplace). And we’ve shown maps, courtesy of CBGNY, that look more like abstract math designs than reasonable districts.But The Albany Project’s Scott in NJ shows, numerically, how messed up things really are:
In November 2006, more New Yorkers voted for Democrats for NY State Senate than for Republicans…
Line Total Votes % Dem Candidate % GOP Candidate % 3rd Candidate % Democratic 1,897,152 48.4% 1,897,152 100.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Republican 1,534,741 39.1% 0 0.0% 1,534,741 100.0% 0 0.0% Seats 62 100.0% 28 45.2% 34 54.8% 0 0.0%
The following statistic is thoroughly mind-blowing:
* 92% of NY voters who voted for a Republican State Senate candidate picked a winner.
* 43% of NY voters who voted for a Democratic State Senate candidate picked a loser.
This is nature’s way of telling you to re-district. Otherwise it’s taxation without representation.
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