Comments on: The Virginia gerrymandering referendum and SCOTUS

By: Blackwing1

Blackwing1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:45:16 +0000

While the election of House Representatives is a state-run affair, it is for a FEDERAL office. It is unclear to me as to why, for legal reasons, that SCOTUS would decline to hear such a blatant case. On t’other hand the US Supreme Court is run the invertebrate (spineless) Roberts, who will never allow to be heard a case which might disrupt his attendance at the Beltway dinners and parties.

The almost unbelievable “filaments” of land included in this outrageous gerrymandering along with the almost-certain election results (going from 6-to-5 down to 10-to-1) should be enough to declare this map to be a violation of the right to representation in Congress by the Rep-wingers in those areas of the state.

By: KC Kasem

KC Kasem — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:15:05 +0000

“Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?”

What do we want?
FAIRNESS!

When do we want it?
TEMPORARILY!

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:58:46 +0000

Given the fact that early voting sites were open all over Virginia, including Fairfax County, the necessity for mail-in ballots is unclear. I don’t know what ballot controls Virginia election law provides. Do people have to certify their right to request a ballot, and provide proof of identity when it is returned?

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:56:39 +0000

To Sailorcurt’s point, I believe eliminating mail in voting would have a significant knock on effect of reintroducing competitive elections and making some blue areas purple and purple areas red.
Mail in voting is so obviously corrupt that it discourages conservative voters. So we get a ‘multiplier’ effect where the vote is cheated in favor of dems and conservatives – knowing this is happening – don’t bother to vote, making the blue advantage seem larger than it actually is.
It’s kind of like the recent fraud exposure – it’s so much bigger than we imagined.
I think an end to mail in voting and cleaning up voter rolls would lead to some very surprising results.

By: R2L

R2L — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:50:19 +0000

GB: “… elevating the popular vote as the deciding mechanism in more and more states.”

It is too bad Franklin did not fully clarify to that woman, upon leaving Independence Hall, that they had created “a representative Republic, and not a mob-like democracy, if you can keep it …”

I suspect that as the categories of allowed suffrage were expanded, there always remained some in the newly added group who thought “yeah, but some of THOSE folks aren’t really as qualified to vote as we are, and they should not be allowed to vote.”

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:00:03 +0000

If the democrat’s Virginia gerrymander stands, it entrenches of that which Jefferson warned, “Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%”.

Though Florida’s republicans will counter it, we will be one step closer to “politics by ‘other’ means”.

Next step is a continuance of the democrat’s slow roll toward eliminating the electoral college by elevating the popular vote as the deciding mechanism in more and more states.

By: neo

neo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:35:01 +0000

Sailorcurt:

I’ve actually seen a lot of online questioning of the mail-in ballots, particularly the ones from Fairfax County.

By: LTEC

LTEC — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:15:04 +0000

The idea of “racist” gerrymandering is completely bizarre. What does it mean? For example, maybe I choose districts so that there is no majority black district. Why would I do this? If it is because black people tend to vote against my party, then this is political gerrymandering. On the other hand, if black people tend to vote for my party, then this gerrymandering would hurt my party, but presumably I hate black people SO MUCH that I gerrymander so as to hurt my party? Really?

By: Sailorcurt

Sailorcurt — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:12:19 +0000

“I think whatever the Supreme Court of Virginia decides, it’s very likely to be the final word on the matter.”

I think you’re right. I doubt that SCOTUS would even accept the case(s).

I think there is a very good chance that the Virginia Supreme Court will rule against the referendum for the clear violations of the law in the procedure followed, if not for the blatantly partisan language used in the ballot question.

The thing that gets me about it is how few people are talking about the veracity of the vote itself. I get that there’s no way to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Dems stole it (mostly because the voting apparatus is designed that way); but Republicans just tut-tutting those silly Virginians without even raising the point that it was mail-in votes…the votes most susceptible to fraud…that overwhelmingly made the difference.

The Republican response to that is not to try to reign in mail in voting to reduce fraud, but to encourage Republican voters to mail their votes in too.

It’s silly because unless Republicans are going to start creating fraudulent mail-in votes to counter the fraudulent Democrat ones, it doesn’t matter how many Republican voters mail in their votes. The Dems will just harvest or create more.

In my humble opinion, every Republican pundit, talking head, blogger and politician should be howling to high heaven about how easy it is to rig the ballot with mail-in voting, not just saying “that’s OK, we’ll just get our voters to cast their ballots that way too.” It’s stupid and it’s why we are going to continue losing.

I.Do.Not.Believe that this was the will of the majority of Virginians…even if the DC suburbs are a hive of scum and villany. For that matter, I find it difficult to believe that Spamburger won the governorship without a healthy dose of dead and illegal voters from those areas where the dems have a death grip on the voting apparatus.

I could be wrong…it’s happened once or twice…but unless these gaping holes in the integrity of our voting system are plugged and we still lose these votes, I won’t believe it.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:57:09 +0000

I agree that the VA court will make this decision, which will be final. The procedural objections are fairly serious, it seems to me. There were legally-specified time requirements which the legislature deigned to ignore. And the “misleading summary” on the ballot is also in Virginia law.