Fifty-five years after passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, our voting system remains broken and prone to partisan manipulation. Gerrymandering embeds corruption in the voting process and skews representation to incumbents and parties in power. Abusive practices became more pronounced and increasingly partisan since 2000.
To the left is the actual and infamous PA Congressional District 7 (“Goofy Kicking Donald Duck”) of 2011, active during the 2012, 2014 and 2016 elections, and ultimately remedied in the 2018 League of Women Voters of PA case.