Opinion | Noah Berlatsky: Why Trump voters motivated by racism could be breaking the law. - NBCNewsTHINK
Trump's unprecedented, compulsive, easily documented lying during the 2016 campaign made him an irrational choice.as Trump was subjected to when the Justice Department found
that his housing developments were discriminating against black tenants in the 1970s. It's more difficult to censure voters who have violated their constitutional duties. Nullifying elections would be essentially impossible. But Smith argues that there are other options. "I think we can dismantle some of the features of the electoral system that encourage racialized decision-making," he says."For instance, you only get a partisan gerrymander by moving people in and out of districts on the basis of their race.
. Presumably, that would make it at least possible for black voters to elect a senator who would support their interests.. But given obvious disparities in representation in the South, it seems worth considering again.
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