They hammered on the long history of partisan gerrymandering and how it eroded citizens’ confidence in the government, in the meaningfulness of voting, and in democracy. They warned that to continue down this road would entrench a one-party system in power whose only threat would be challengers from the extremist wing. They predicted that the rotten-borough districts would make these so-called representatives absolutely unrepresentative because they would be impervious to the will of voters. We are creating, they insisted, a system in which “elections do not matter.” As long as the system puts
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