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Texas’s gerrymandering fight over its midterms map is getting messier

Texas’s gerrymandering fight over its midterms map is getting messier

Democracy’s a pretty simple concept: Voters vote for a politician, the politician with the most votes wins, and that politician then represents voters as an elected official. That’s the idea anyway, right? But what if — just what if — instead of voters picking politicians, politicians instead could choose their own voters? And basically guarantee their own outcomes? That’s what’s …

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