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9 02, 2024

Porter’s Recommendations for March 5 Primary

2024-02-09T09:18:41-08:00February 9, 2024|

            I receive a lot of requests for my election recommendations columns. Hard to believe, huh. Last year I received an email from one reader who was most appreciative of my support column. It made it easy for him to [...]

28 09, 2018

Partisan Gerrymandering Ruled Unconstitutional

2018-09-28T23:27:42-07:00September 28, 2018|

One of my pet peeves is the rigging of elections by politicians. Drawing voting district maps in convoluted configurations to insure victory at the polls at the expense of the party not in power (gerrymandering), is common throughout our fair land. We recently wrote about [...]

29 06, 2018

US Supreme Court Sidesteps Partisan Gerrymandering Case

2018-06-29T22:55:35-07:00June 29, 2018|

The US Supreme Court was asked to rule on a partisan gerrymandering case in Wisconsin:  Gill. v. Whitford. BLATANT GERRYMANDERING The Wisconsin Republican Party’s technique was by “cracking” aka “splitting” certain Democrat voters among different districts so those voters failed to achieve electoral majorities and [...]

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