[LWVNM Action] From the NY Times August 22 editorial on gerrmandering

[Richard Mason]

Of course, as my father used to say to me, being right and a "nickel" will get you a cup of coffee - yes, a nickel in the 1950s.
Dick Mason

"Gerrymandering can sometimes seem like an unavoidable quirk in American democracy. The practice is more than 200 years old, after all, and both parties have engaged in it. Ultimately, though, gerrymandering is a form of cheating — an attempt to disconnect political power from the will of voters. And it is preventable."

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