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To: frankw1900 who wrote (49618)	6/9/2004 2:02:44 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793989

Hi, Frank. How are you doing? Your questions: Is the number of Black members of the GOP increasing? Don't actually know the answer to that one. I recall that Bush got pretty much the usual Rep proportions of the black vote in 2000 so they are not improving there. What is the effect of computerized gerrymandering going to be? Again, I don't know. I assume you mean the detailed information from the precinct level that makes it possible to put this block of houses in one district and the one's across the street in another. Both parties have done that and will continue to do it unless we get lucky, have a scandal, and there is enough outrage to mandate genuinely fair redistricting. Not likely to happen. As you know, the genuine scandal at the moment, is that the Reps are pioneering a new form of such gerrymandering by innovating procedures in which any time power turns over in state governments, the newly powerful party can redistrict federal districts. Just another evidence of sickness.