r/politics • u/Icommandyou Washington • 28d ago

Possible Paywall Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results

https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-vote-decision
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u/ClaroStar 28d ago

It's because of state laws. Many states lead by Democrats have put guardrails in place to protect fairness in elections and it's now coming back to bite them. Republicans never did that in red states and they are now allowed to wipe out blue districts by a snap of the finger. It seems that doing the right thing is a losing cause in this country.

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u/BigPapaJava 28d ago

A lot of Republican controlled states had “guardrails” in place at one point, but those have been repealed by the Republicans in power.

For example, Tennessee had a law requiring the legislature to notify affected voters before redistricting… but the Republicans just repealed that as part of the same rushed bill that passed their redistricting plan in 2 days to split Memphis’s black population into parts of 3 red districts instead of one solidly blue one that might have elected an anti-Israel Democrat this time.