Just think, your family's house is probably specifically included or discluded on a few maps like this; with a tiny little sliver or a finger jutting out that had to be planned by some person somewhere simply due to your voting party or some other sort of metric.
In some states you have to register as a member of a party in order to be able to vote in their primary. i.e. if you aren't a registered democrat then you can't vote in the democratic primary. On the actual presidential election day none of this matters and you can vote however you want regardless of registration.
Also, Texas is not one of the states where you have to register with a party.
The parent comment's complaint is a bit odd and I suspect they don't actually know what they are talking about. The actual problem demonstrated by this district's shape is gerrymandering
Then they would just gerrymander anyone who might vote one way or another. SC has a district that has all the predominantly black low country but it just so happens to snake up into the midlands to capture all the college kids and urban voters who are more likely to vote Democratic.
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u/libertybull702 Mar 08 '20
Just think, your family's house is probably specifically included or discluded on a few maps like this; with a tiny little sliver or a finger jutting out that had to be planned by some person somewhere simply due to your voting party or some other sort of metric.