Community Spotlight: Voters should choose legislators
JoAnn Nabe Contributing Columnist
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Every ten years after the decennial census data, states redraw their state and congressional district lines. These districts determine how communities are represented at the local, state and federal levels. The census data is crucial to this process. The 2020 census is still incomplete and there are court challenges to the inclusion of undocumented people. This process underscores the importance of accurate census data.
Redistricting is vulnerable to gerrymandering. Elbridge Gerry served as a member of the Massachusetts legislature, member of Congress under the first Constitution and the Articles of Confederation, the governor of Massachusetts, and the vice president under James Madison. As governor of Massachusetts, he enacted a law redrawing the state’s senatorial districts in a way that over represented his own political party. The districts drawn were oddly shaped an