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July 13, 2003

Choiceless ballot coming to voting booth near you

Choiceless ballot coming to voting booth near you

Commentary by Cokie Roberts and Steven Roberts
July 03, 2003

If you think you will have a real choice when you vote for your member of Congress next year, think again. Your political leaders are conspiring to kill democracy in the House of Representatives.

In more than 90 percent of the nation's 435 congressional districts, the lines have been drawn to guarantee the election of one party or the other. Last fall, only four challengers defeated incumbents, the fewest number ever.

Election experts Steven Hill and Rob Richie summed up the redistricting process since the 2000 census for The Washington Post: "The real losers were voters, left with overwhelmingly choiceless elections."

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Democrats are hardly guilt-free. In California, they were the main architects of a plan that protects every single incumbent of both parties and creates not one — zippo, zero — swing district. The whole state is entirely choiceless.
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