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I must take issue with your editorial of June 26, entitles Perrymandering; not so much with the issue of whether gerrymandering is bad or good as I feel that since Texas became a State or for that matter since the U.S. became a Nation the voting districts have been redrawn, not just every 10 years as you suggest, but whenever the “club” in power, feels that it is in its interest to do so. There have been times when a legislator’s friends would redraw his district so he could move and still stay in power. There have been cases that previous clubs in power have redrawn districts when they perceived shifts in population voting trends, outside census periods even in Texas. Read the rest of this entry »