SCOTUS Realizes Gerrymandering Is Constitutional Stealin' The Children, Land & Votes Under The Thirteenth Amendment Exception Clause
Now, that I have provided the legal origins of the entire doctrine of gerrymandering, we shall move into the next phase, by identifying the cui bono, or rather the national origins of the financial benefactors in the passage of this Bill.
SENATE BILL NO. 759Found in this Bill, we have a term, that is arbitrarily and capriciously defined as "pre-incarceration address".
January 28, 2020, Introduced by Senator SANTANA and referred to the Committee on Elections.
A bill to require that the pre-incarceration address of incarcerated individuals be reported when providing information for voting district population counts; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state officers and entities.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. As used in this act:
(a) "Department" means the department of corrections.
(b) "Pre-incarceration address" means the address at which an incarcerated individual resided before the individual's current incarceration.
Sec. 2. For purposes of reporting the residency of an individual who is incarcerated in a correctional institution operated by the department, as that information relates to a population count that is used for the establishment of a voting district, the department shall report the individual's pre-incarceration address.
'Your Body Being Used': Where Prisoners Who Can't Vote Fill Voting Districts
When an individual is duly order by the court of law to be placed under the auspices of the State, there is a transfer of the grant of parental right of the chattel, meaning, the prison, being a private prison in most cases, becomes the corporate parent.The corporate parent has the legal right, by proxy, to execute the right to vote, which is done through absentee ballots.
The term which has been traditionally used to describe this prison gerrymandering is called vote packing, which I watched bloom in Detroit.
So, if voting is based upon residency, and not domicile, how come no one has raised this issue of law?
I am going to go out there and just say that we are dealing with the application of private commercial law over the management of human capital assets, such as the right to vote.
The majority of individuals who go to prison, are sentenced under the moral turpitude laws of poverty, meaning, they committed crimes because they were tired of being hungry, or, what I call as being victims of "Whoops" human socioeconomic human lab rat experimental programs gone horribly wrong.
Either way, someone needs to explain to me why gerrymandering is even considered legal, because it is just another fancy way of saying stealin' the children, land and vote.
Gerrymandering was named after Elbridge Gerry, former Vice President and grand father of Eldridge Gerry founded the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where what we know today as Child Protective Services was known as the Gerry Society.
Michigan bill aims to end 'prison gerrymandering' before 2020 census
Proposed legislation would change how Michigan's prisoners are counted in legislative and congressional districts, a move that researchers say could shift political power away from rural areas that claim a significant number of incarcerated people as constituents.Senate Bill 759 aims to end the practice of counting prisoners as residents in the districts where they're currently incarcerated, which critics call "prison gerrymandering."
The bill, introduced by Sen. Sylvia Santana, D-Detroit, would require that prisoners' last-known addresses be used when establishing voting districts. Santana said the change is necessary to draw districts "of equal and fair proportions."
“Prisoners are people, too, and they should be counted in their home communities if we are to build a truly representative democracy," she said.
Like prisoners in all states except Maine and Vermont, the roughly 38,000 people serving time in Michigan Department of Corrections facilities cannot vote.
Advocates argue that counting prisoners in the districts where they're incarcerated, even though they're not part of surrounding community and cannot vote, unfairly boosts the populations of those areas.
"Communities with prisons have their political power inflated because their populations are inflated because of people who are in prison, and other communities see their votes sort of diluted," said Cara Brumfield, senior policy analyst for the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative.
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Political districts are redrawn every 10 years after the census.Santana hopes to change the law by April 1, designated as Census Day, when the U.S. Census Bureau says every home should have received an invitation to participate in the census.
Santana's legislation stands to have the greatest effect on state House districts that claim a high percentage of prisoners as constituents, said Aleks Kajstura, legal director of the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit advocating to count incarcerated people as residents of their home addresses.
"There would be less representational power concentrated in these few districts that have these huge incarcerated populations," she said. "There wouldn't be anywhere in the state that would gain the same amount of power that these districts lost."
There were three House districts drawn after the 2010 census that claimed prisoners as more than 5% of their population, Kajstura said.
Just more than 7% of people in District 70 were incarcerated when the mid-Michigan district was drawn after the 2010 census, according to Kajstura. That district is represented by Rep. Jim Lower, R-Greenville, who said Thursday that he didn't have enough information to form an opinion on Santana's bill. He added that voter turnout in his district, which includes three prisons in Montcalm and Gratiot counties, is low compared to surrounding areas.
It's unlikely that the proposal would have a significant effect on congressional districts. It wouldn't affect elections at the municipal or county levels because state law excludes state prisoners from being counted for representation purposes.
Advocates have been fighting for years for the U.S. Census Bureau to change its longstanding practice of counting prisoners as residents of the district where they're incarcerated.
The bureau hasn't altered its policy, but seven states have passed legislation similar to Santana's bill. After the census count, those states will adjust the data to reallocate incarcerated people for redistricting. Similar legislation is pending in eight other states, Kajstura said.
A state-level change to where Michigan's prisoners are counted would have no bearing on the distribution of federal funds for services and infrastructure because funding formulas don't use redistricting data, Kajstura said.
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