Why Bother Voting? Gerry Tells Us Why.

I think I mentioned once before about gerrymandering in creating congressional districts within every state that gained or lost population over the last ten years. 2010 was the census year and so this year many states got to carve up the states according to the desires of the majority parties in each state's congress. Well, that's true for all but a very few. But states like Pennsylvania and Texas to name just two, carved it up in favor of the majority in state congress. In Pennsylvania, they have a pretend fair process. Members of both parties get to be on the board that carves up the state, but since one party has a majority, they get more people on the board. Care to guess how good ole Penn's Woods goes? In Texas, they're more open about it. They just have the majority party in the state congress carve it up. Now there are states where the Republicans are in control and others where the Democrats are in control. In that respect, the country is bi-partisan. Back to Texas. They were supposed to get four new seats or districts, which means four more in the U.S. Congress, almost entirely because of the influx Hispanics in the state. So how was the state divided up. Well the new map would have decreased the number of Hispanic leaning districts by one. A neat trick, right? Well the federal courts said it wasn't neat enough and redrew it so that there is an increase of four Hispanic leaning districts. The Texas governor, vise governor and state Atty General are all up in arms, not to mention the majority party in the state house. They're appealing it to the U.S. Supreme Court. So the question to the Supreme Court is; Do citizens get to have their vote count or not? The question to the rest of the country is; What about us? Do we get a voice or not. California has a non-partisan board make the decision. It's final. Why isn't that the law of the land? How come I don't get to have my vote count? How about yours?