Virginia Democrats are pushing to redefine “election” as they appeal a state Supreme Court ruling that demolished their agenda to redistrict their state and hand to 51% of its residents, the Democrats, more than 90% of the state’s congressional representation.
The fight is over a gerrymandering that the Democrats pushed through a statewide vote. Their plan was to make 10 of the states 11 congressional districts Democrat majorities. The division right now is 6-5 with a Democrat majority, fairly accurately representing the 51%-49% Democrat-Republican divide in the state.
The Virginia Supreme Court struck it down because the state’s constitution requires an intervening election between two legislative votes on such an amendment.
The legislature, last year, took its first vote on the dispute after early voting already had started in the election.
So the Democrats, who long have argued that elections should be flexible, what with early voting, absentee voting, in-person voting, late voting and such, now all of a sudden are insisting that it actually is an “election” day.
The Virginia ruling will have a ripple effect across states as the 2026 midterms approach, dealing a blow to Democrat plans to manipulate redistricting to gain an advantage in Congress.
One dissenter in the Virginia decision, Cleo Powell, argued for what has been opposed by Democrats for years, an election day.
He said considering that an election has started, with early voting as it did in Virginia last year, would create confusion.
After what they handed us with The Great Society, Obamacare, and whatever the f*** that was between 45 and 47, the party needs some down time to consider its next stupid move with a new front man, or woman, or whatever.