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Hoeg, director of aclu voting rights project. thank you, dale, for being here. explain the case before the supreme court. this is a case challenging the redistricting maps in wisconsin. you mention disparity between national vote and representation in congress. wisconsin is a very extreme case. in wisconsin, republicans got about 49% of votes for the state legislature in 2012, got 60% of the seats. a massive disparity. get this. in 2014, a few years later, republicans actually got a majority of the votes but they got almost the exact same percentage of seats, so the precise number of votes ended up not mattering, the game was essentially rigged and the republicans were basically locked into the same percentage majority in the legislature. what is the argument on the other side as to why this kind of gerrymandering should be allowed to continue? the other side says part of the reason for this is that democrats tend to live in ....
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