Friday, October 06, 2017

Gill Another Version of Dumping the Electoral College

One of Wisconsin's brightest lawyers essays on Gill currently before SCOTUS.  The case has portent; if it is decided favoring the (frankly) Left, then the Electoral College will be defunct.

....The lower court in Gill nevertheless thought Wisconsin's maps were unfair because it was possible to draw maps that might lead to more "proportional" results. This gives away the game. Because the efficiency gap treats "wasted" votes as a presumptive constitutional problem that must be explained away or remedied, it is, in the end, a requirement of some form of rough proportionality between the aggregate votes for the candidates of one party and the number of seats won by that party's candidates. It is the absence of that proportionality that turns out to be the "inefficiency" that must be remedied.

But Democratic and Republican voters are not uniformly distributed throughout a state's geography and it is unlikely that the results of numerous individual elections will match statewide preferences. Although it claimed otherwise, there is no way around the fact that the lower court majority chose to impose a constitutional obligation to, in effect, gerrymander for "competitiveness" and to compensate for the natural disadvantage imposed by the geographic concentration of Democrats....

Follow the logic of the Lefties on this case and look at the red-highlighted text.

Hillary would be President, people.....

1 comment:

Ray J said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pteDqeX3CGg&feature=youtu.be