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Wife. Mother. Author. Virginia House of Delegates - 99th District #famillyfaithfreedom

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AF Tata@DelegateAFTata·
Thank you for stating what we knew to be true! 🇺🇸🙌🏻👏🏻
Chaz Nuttycombe@ChazNuttycombe

A lot of the anti-DEM gerrymander folks keep saying that the proposed VA congressional map would be the most extreme gerrymander in the country. So let's put that to the test using actual political science. The efficiency gap was the standard developed by political scientists during Rucho v. Common Cause (2019). It's not an entirely perfect measurement, as noted in Keena et al., "Gerrymandering the States," because it would technically rate the 2010s Maryland gerrymander as a fair map, for example (though it does show the 2010s Wisconsin gerrymander as an egregious gerrymander!). Keena et al. argue that the mean/median difference is sometimes a better practice; however, for example, it shows the VA gerrymander as a fair map. My standard for measuring how extreme a gerrymander is, or whether a map is gerrymandered at all, is pretty much one standard or the other, depending on which makes sense. In this case, the efficiency gap is the best standard. Using the 2024 presidential results, we can see in DRA 2020 what the efficiency gap is in the enacted/proposed congressional gerrymanders across the country. The closer to 0, the fairer the map using efficiency gaps. Negative favors DEMs, positive favors GOP. Let's take a look. VA: -24.02% NC: 22.55% MO: 17.65% OH: 15.34% CA: -14.92% IL: -14.60% TX: 14.05% NM: -13.98% FL: 11.79% So yes, the proposed VA DEM gerrymander would be the most extreme gerrymander in the country. In fact, it would be more extreme than the 2010s WI Gerrymander that Rucho was all about, which has a 19-point efficiency gap. Only North Carolina comes close to being an egregious gerrymander.

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Wren Williams
Wren Williams@WrenWilliamsVA·
"Virginians who did nothing wrong are watching their God-given constitutional rights be stripped away layer-by-layer by a majority that answers to Northern Virginia." See my commentary on the impending 2A death rattle in Virginia below👇 dailywire.com/news/virginias…
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Glen Sturtevant
Glen Sturtevant@GlenSturtevant·
The last thing Virginia should be doing is making it harder for law enforcement to work with federal immigration authorities. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what the General Assembly is doing. This comes at a time when, just two weeks ago, Stephanie Minter was fatally stabbed by a criminal illegal alien. That suspect had been arrested several times and was already the subject of an ICE order. He should never have been on the street. We should be making it easier, not harder, for criminal illegal aliens to be removed before more innocent Virginians get hurt or killed.
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Marina Medvin 🇺🇸
Marina Medvin 🇺🇸@MarinaMedvin·
Virginia Democrats drafted the most dishonest constitutional amendment. The intent of the amendment is to racially segregate voters and to deprive Republicans of any potential comeback in the future. It’s a checkmate move. But they’re advertising it as “restoring fairness” — as if they’re the party in power because they’re victims of the system. lol. The current Virginia Democrats in power are the worst of the worst.
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Virginia GOP
Virginia GOP@VA_GOP·
There’s nothing “fair” about Democrats’ partisan power grab.
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