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To: Edscharp who wrote (17369)	5/13/2003 1:23:26 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 21614

You forgot that "redistricting has worked well for USA", to achieve many things which could not have been otherwise, from Jim Crow to Civil Rights. No accident it is such a traditional gerrymander mechanism.. Also no accident that most other nations (all but the major angloamerican) have come up with election systems eliminating this intrinsic dilemma and problem. But, what would civil rights have become without a lot of gerrymandering, it is only sad that most of the ideas of democracy must be excluded in the process. Ilmarinen That is, districts were manipulated with specific, although opposite goals, before and after civil rights, nothing like "sometimes this, sometimes that". Additionally, the USA district-system is clearly the worldwide "bizarre" one, using any definition of "democracy" (except "pseudo-democracy") Peersonally i would go very "bizarr" if some committee would be playing poker with my and my neighbor's votes. If that would not help, I might even skip voting, as so many americans.