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Lansing — Michigan’s congressional maps continued to favor Republican candidates in 2018 even though Democrats flipped two seats to split control of the state’s delegation in a wave election, according to a new analysis.
It was planned. Check the absentee ballots. They are probably fake.
And its state House boundaries ranked among the most biased in the country.
Because it was planned. One day I shall sit everyone down and teach them about foreign propaganda in our lawmaking.
“Efficiency gap” measurements calculated by The Associated Press challenge GOP claims in the U.S. Supreme Court, which is set to hear oral arguments next week in alleged
partisan gerrymandering cases from North Carolina and Maryland as Michigan judges consider a similar lawsuit here.
The Michigan case may be a bit different as we are dealing with a situation of "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending). Has anyone seen Mark Elias lately?
In a recent high court briefing, attorneys for the Republican National and the National Republican Congressional Committee pointed to Michigan’s 2018 elections as evidence that courts are incapable of determining partisan intent.
I can prove partisan intent. The Michigan Emergency Manager Law that took over Detroit, the most concentrated area of voters, and denationalized everything in state transfers to Public Private Partnerships of foreign corporations that came in as Corporate Shape Shifters to launch a massive fake mortgage fraud foreclosure scam in a real estate grab using federal funding through fraudulent cost reimbursements in the Medicaid child welfare system.
“The ‘durability’ of Michigan’s partisan gerrymander was apparently limited to elections prior to 2018,” lead GOP attorney Jason Torchinsky and his colleagues told the Supreme Court justices, noting Democratic gains last fall.
No, no, no. Michigan was gerrymandered intentionally based upon property ownership. That is how the MDP was able to run their absentee ballot fraud schemes in the City of Detroit. The Michigan Democratic Party is not too concerned about anything else outside of Detroit.
“Time and time again courts have determined electoral maps to be unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders due to those maps’ effect of 'entrenching' a political party in power and then subsequently, under those same maps, the supposedly ‘entrenched’ party was defeated, sometimes in spectacular fashion.”
No. Those 2010 maps were based on predictive modeling crap.
Michigan congressional districts, drawn by Republicans and first implemented in 2012, did show smaller signs of partisan bias in 2018 than in other recent years, according to the AP analysis of election data across the country.
No mention of the trend in property tax or mortgage foreclosures? That is when you know you have bias.
But Michigan’s 8.1 percent efficiency gap score for 2018 was the 18th highest in the country and suggests Republican candidates won one extra congressional seat than would have been expected based on their vote share.
Right. That score is crap because it did not take into consideration the bogus property tax and mortgage fraud foreclosures. When you have a glaring, intentionally exclusion of independent data, you know you have fraud, or, for the Smarty Pants people, you are using dirty data.
Democratic congressional candidates won 54 percent of major party votes in Michigan, compared with 46 percent for Republicans. They flipped two seats to split the state’s 14 U.S. House seats, seven to seven.
Last time I checked, we still have some unanswered issues with the validity of the 2018 election.
Nationally, Democrats regained control of the U.S. House and flipped hundreds of seats in state Legislatures. But the cycle was not as bad as it could have been for Republicans, whose strong 2010 election cycle put them in position to draw decade-defining maps in many states, according to the AP analysis.
Those 2010 maps busted up neighborhoods going down to stratified household data. I saw it. You people need to stop lying.
“These districts are gerrymandered, but they’re not built for a thousand-year flood,” said Michael Li, senior redistricting counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.
The people over at the Brennan Center for Justice need to talk to "Pookie" Brennan and ask him if he thinks we know who that predictive modeling crap in land speculation in civil asset forfeiture in real properties.
Republicans who drew district boundaries in Michigan and other states seven years ago had no way to foresee factors that shaped 2018, he said, including the 2016 election of President Donald Trump and unusually high voter turnout last fall.
They had no way to see the factors that shaped the 2018 election because they refuse to talk about those foreign corporations taking over the land, funding political campaigns, to launch those land banks to suck up TARP.
“It’s like saying I had a seven-foot wall and then a hurricane came and it still flooded my property,” Li said.
Measuring bias
The efficiency gap, a relatively new formula cited in Supreme Court arguments, measures wasted votes for losing candidates and votes for winners beyond what was needed to triumph. It’s a way to gauge the impact of “packing” and “cracking” voters into certain districts to minimize the power of the minority party.
No. The Supreme Court needs to be chastised for using such a crappy predictive model to "gauge" that "packing & cracking" voters into certain districts. This is how you measure.
VOTER PACKING: WHEN THE CITY ELECTIONS CLERK LETS INTERESTED PARTIES FILLS OUT A BUNCH OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR THE CANDIDATES THEY WANT IN OFFICE.
VOTER CRACKING: WHEN THE COUNTY TREASURER SENDS OUT FAKE TAX FORECLOSURE NOTICES TO PROPERTIES THEY NEED TO SECURE TO REGISTER MULTIPLE FAKE IDENTITIES TO CERTAIN ADDRESSES SECURED WITH THE LAND BANK
VOTER SMACKING: WHEN YOU PUT OUT ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUEST FORMS FROM THE PAST YEAR SO THE ELECTIONS CLERK CAN DISQUALIFY AND TOSS ANY VOTES CAST AGAINST THE CANDIDATE THEY WANT
The apparent impact of Michigan’s partisan map-making process was more pronounced in state House races. Michigan’s 10.87 efficiency gap score ranked fourth highest in the country for 2018, suggesting nearly 12 excess seats for the GOP, according to AP calculations.
Homelessness is another factor when it comes to measuring the vote. It is difficult to go vote when you are transient because you lost your home to a fake tax foreclosure.
Democrats won 54 percent of the major party statewide vote, but Republicans won 53 percent of state House races, returning a 58-52 majority in the 110-member chamber.
I would hold off putting any more weight on these results until DOJ & DHS comes out with their findings on the Michigan 2018 election.
Critics say the efficiency gap does not prove partisan gerrymandering and can produce “false positives” because of naturally occurring geographic factors and other legal requirements, including mandates for districts with a majority of African-American or other minority voters.
I wish these so-called Smarty Pants people would give the peculiar institution back its vessel manifest accounting codes.
Rural areas in Michigan, including the Upper Peninsula, have increasingly turned Republican in recent years.
That is because they were invaded by lots of foreign operatives, who launched lots of foreign propaganda, but hey, what do I know? I bet Butina knows.
“In many states, Democratic voters are concentrated in or near urban areas while Republican voters are more evenly distributed,” attorneys for North Carolina Republicans said in a recent Supreme Court filing.
It is called poverty. Land Banks typically target historic areas because the properties are located along major transportation lines and ports.
“As a result, the pre-existing political geography of the State will tend to produce more 'wasted' Democratic votes than Republican votes as long as the map drawer follows traditional districting principles like compactness, contiguity, and preserving communities of interest.”
Fraud, it is called, fraud. Say it. Ok, fine, let SIGTARP say it.
Experts say the efficiency gap alone does not prove a partisan gerrymander, and the North Carolina and Maryland cases going before the Supreme Court include other evidence lower courts have used to determine partisan intent.
All you have to do is use my land bank litmus test. Does the state have a land bank. Yes? Then there was gerrymandering.
In North Carolina, lawmakers openly discussed partisan intent and a legislative committee
adopted a criterion holding that the new makeup of congressional maps would continue a 10-3 majority for Republicans.
The efficiency gap and other statistical evidence can “raise red flags” in states like Michigan that are worthy of additional exploration by courts, Li said.
SIGTARP is has an ongoing investigation into the fraudulent snatching of properties through fake tax schemes. I believe this matter is currently pending before the court, which may just put a monkey wrench on any SCOTUS future rulings. Stay! Good boys and girls.
Geographic factors and a desire to keep communities intact “for any number of good or moral reasons” could play a role in an efficiency gap score, he said.
“In some states, you actually would have to gerrymander to get zero because there’s sort of a natural bias there.”
Michigan decision looms
The North Carolina case before the U.S. Supreme Court alleges a statewide gerrymander by Republicans, while the Maryland case alleges gerrymandering by Democrats to flip a specific congressional seat.
Hardest Hit Fund, Community Development, anyone?
The
Michigan suit alleges an unconstitutional Republican attempt to dilute the power of Democratic voters in congressional and legislative districts across the state and seeks an order for new maps in 2020.
There are multiple foreign nationals who have ensured that their Michigan GOP candidates and elected officials will promulgate law and policies to make the people poor, for the purposes of stealin' children, the land and the votes. It is called forced migration.
GOP attorneys had asked the Supreme Court to delay the Michigan case, arguing its resolution would directly affect deliberations here. The court declined the request in February without explanation, and the case proceeded to trial that month.
Do not make me have to do one of those amicus curiae because I will, you know. I file an entire treatise on stealin': How the Detroit Land Bank Authority, et al, jacked up the 2016 & 2018 elections. I shall be kind and keep it to a small data set of Wayne County property tax foreclosure rolls.
See, if your house is on this list, you probably had your vote tossed, or rather wasted, because it would not be counted.
This is quantitative data, just to let you know.
2018 quantitative data gerrymandering of 2020 redistricting maps:
Any Supreme Court decision will “likely supersede or control the ruling of the district court,” said Gary Gordon, an attorney representing some of the GOP lawmakers who have intervened in the Michigan case.
Yes, the lawmaker intervention, move. Jolly good show to cover thine arse, mate!
Republicans argue Michigan mapmakers followed all applicable laws when drawing congressional and legislative districts in 2011.
Actually, the drawing of the maps did follow the law. Now, how they secured the data is an entirely different legal issue to be addressed.
Emails produced in the case have shown mapmakers used software that calculated the partisan makeup of each district they drew and told Republicans they were providing options “to ensure we have a 9-5 (congressional) delegation in 2012 and beyond.”
The Supreme Court case gives justices the opportunity to “finally lay out the standard for what constitutes a partisan gerrymander,” said Li, who is part of a Brennan Center team that filed a legal brief supporting claims of unconstitutional partisan bias in the North Carolina and Maryland cases.
“That would help the court in Michigan and the courts elsewhere that are sort of wrestling with how to write opinions.”
No, it will not. Say fraud. Say it. Fine. Say stealin'. Say it.
The Michigan trial concluded in February and judges have since rejected two GOP motions to dismiss the suit or strike evidence. But it’s unclear if they will rule before or after the Supreme Court, which could do so by the end of June.
Force migration?
The impact of the high court ruling on the Michigan suit may depend on whether it is broad or narrowly focused on specifics of the North Carolina or Maryland cases, Li said.
Human trafficking. Say it.
“The Michigan case will be appealed to the Supreme Court as well,” he predicted, “and so it’s unclear to me if the court has any incentive to rush something out, other than at some point Michigan will need maps for the 2020 election.”
We have the technology. Use it. Technology stops fraud. I can tweet it for you if I was not backdoor shadowbanned on Twitter.
Michigan voters last year approved a ballot initiative to create a new citizen redistricting commission that will draw new congressional and legislative district lines, beginning in 2022. Previous state law had allowed whichever political party controlled the Michigan Legislature to control the process.
The following links will provide an in depth insight into the new citizen redistricting commission in Michigan.
That continues to be the case in a majority of other states, meaning a Supreme Court decision could have a large impact heading into a 2020 election cycle that will decide who controls the process in those parts of the country.
The selected methodologies of SCOTUS to opine in the matter of gerrymandering is crap. Please see link directly below.
“The court will be setting some ground rules for when maps are redrawn in 2021, and that’s going to be important because the data and the technology to do these sorts of gerrymanders are becoming more available and more powerful,” Li said. “People will slide and dice and recombine voters in ways that you would have only dreamed about in 2011.”
I believe Li is referencing that thing called being Butina-ed, foreign funded influence of "The Elected Ones". Just pull their financials.
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