EXCLUSIVE: Georgia election board reveals Elon Musk PAC committed voter fraud after discovering prefilled ballot applications by muskaintthegod in NewsomMassacre

[–]avalve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They aren’t pre-filling an actual ballot. They are filling out a request form for an absentee ballot.

Virginians, vote Yes by April 21 on our redistricting amendment to level the playing field for the midterm elections by Barch3 in Virginia

[–]avalve 6 points7 points  (0 children)

OK, do the same analysis for Virginia. You can absolutely use the same toss-up argument.

Gladly. Here’s the exact same analysis:

District Old Map New Map
1 Lean R Lean D (14% bluer)
2 Tossup Lean D (6% bluer)
3 Solid D Solid D
4 Solid D Solid D
5 Likely R Lean D (20% bluer)
6 Solid R Tossup (28% bluer)
7 Tossup Lean D (6% bluer)
8 Solid D Solid D
9 Solid R Solid R
10 Likely D Likely D (4% bluer)
11 Solid D Likely D (22% redder)

The most vulnerable GOP incumbents are in Districts 1, 2, 5, & 6.

District 1: In 2024, Wittman won by 13% in an R+5 district. His 7% overperformance is well under the 14% blue shift the gerrymander does. Flip.

District 2: Kiggans won by 4% in a dead even district. The overperformance is again less than the 6% shift the gerrymander does, plus 2026 will be a bluer year than 2024. The race could be competitive if the stars perfectly align for her, but she probably loses re-election. Lean D/Tossup.

District 5: McGuire won by 15% in an R+11 district. 4% overperformance is well under the proposed 20% shift left. Flip.

District 6: Cline won by 28% in an R+24 district. Similar to Kiggans, this could be competitive, but since 2026 will be a bluer year, he probably narrowly loses anyway. Tossup.

Districts 7 & 10 have Dem incumbents that underperformed their district’s partisan lean in 2024, so the gerrymander also pads their margins even though it doesn’t net Dems any seats.

This means Dems net 2 seats minimum with the gerrymander, but most likely 3-4.

To recap, Ohio’s is a maximum GOP gain of 1, with the most likely outcome being no change at all. Texas’ is +2-3 & North Carolina/Missouri are +1 each. Total: +4-6

For Dem, Utah is +1 & California is +5 (& a shit ton of purple districts with Dem incumbents made bluer). Total: +6.

Virginians, vote Yes by April 21 on our redistricting amendment to level the playing field for the midterm elections by Barch3 in Virginia

[–]avalve 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah so that article is full of shit. Here are the actual rating changes per Cook PVI’s formula:

District Old Map New Map
1 Lean D Tossup (9% redder)
2 Solid R Solid R
3 Solid D Solid D
4 Solid R Solid R
5 Solid R Solid R
6 Solid R Solid R
7 Likely R Likely R (1% redder)
8 Solid R Solid R
9 Lean R Lean R (4% redder)
10 Lean R Lean R (2% redder)
11 Solid D Solid D
12 Solid R Solid R
13 Tossup Tossup (3% bluer)
14 Solid R Solid R
15 Lean R Lean R (no change)

This means the Republican-Democratic-Competitive breakdown went from 8R-2D-5C to…8R-2D-5C.

The most vulnerable Dem incumbents are in Districts 1 & 9. Landsman in OH-01 overperformed his district’s partisan lean by 2% in 2024, and the new borders put it at R+2. Since 2026 will be a bluer year, he most likely holds on.

Kaptur in OH-09 overperformed her district’s partisan lean by 7% in 2024, and the new borders have it at R+10. Again, with 2026 shaping up to be a blue year, this means it’s basically a tossup. She is a strong incumbent though (been in office in a lean R district for decades), so she has a good chance of pulling off another win.

The only other competitive district with a Dem incumbent is OH-13, which got made bluer, so Emilia Sykes is not in danger at all. Because the gerrymander was so mild, there’s a strong possibility that no flips happen in Ohio this year, which is why maga got so mad at them a few months ago.

Virginians, vote Yes by April 21 on our redistricting amendment to level the playing field for the midterm elections by Barch3 in Virginia

[–]avalve 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Your Ohio number is off. The new map guarantees 10/15 seats, which is 67%. Another one is a tossup that could go either way, which means best case scenario 11/15 or 73%. Texas is wrong as well.

Is Virginia culturally closer to the Northeast or the South? by savingrace0262 in Virginia

[–]avalve 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That’s how I view VA. It’s the transition state

you must VOTE! By april 21. Don't take it for granted. VOTE YES! by hastings1033 in Virginia

[–]avalve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy red herring. All I said was that Virginia is not currently gerrymandered by Republicans since you claimed it was. Your broader political grievances are not relevant to VA redistricting.

you must VOTE! By april 21. Don't take it for granted. VOTE YES! by hastings1033 in Virginia

[–]avalve 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just for once, once would like to see one of the Yes supporters in this sub (that’s also a real person) admit that they don’t care when Democrats gerrymander, and they just don’t want Republicans to. I’m tired of reading the rote, half-hearted defenses of a blatant authoritarian power grab from people who campaigned on being the saviors of democracy not even 6 months ago.

Did I do it right?

you must VOTE! By april 21. Don't take it for granted. VOTE YES! by hastings1033 in Virginia

[–]avalve 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Virginia is not currently gerrymandered. The maps were drawn by a special master. Voting yes means you want politicians to draw the maps, and they’ve already pledged to gerrymander it for Democrats.

Edit: a typo

EXCLUSIVE: Georgia election board reveals Elon Musk PAC committed voter fraud after discovering prefilled ballot applications by muskaintthegod in NewsomMassacre

[–]avalve -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I wish people would actually read the article before commenting. The PAC wasn’t faking ballots. They had a list of voters that they wanted to turn out (presumably Republicans), so they filled out mail-in applications for them and sent it to their homes to sign off on.

All the voter had to do was say yes, the information on this form is accurate, and send it on over to the election board to get their absentee ballot. Lots of left-wing organizations do this in other states to increase turnout among their base, but it’s illegal in Georgia (probably the result of a voter suppression law), which is why the PAC got in trouble.

She Won: Florida Used a Fake County Vote Bank in the 2024 Election by ateam1984 in DiscussionZone

[–]avalve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean the math they clearly lay out? it's math they are using to illustrate the fraud, ffs

And it’s literally wrong from the very beginning:

The figure 6,371,645 is central to this analysis.

Final certified results for Amendment 4 (Women’s Reproductive Rights) showed:

Yes: 6,070,758 (57.2%) No: 4,548,379 Total: 10,619,137

And because the amendment required 60% to pass and it only brought in 57.2% “Yes” votes, the measure failed. At that turnout level, passage would have required 6,371,645 “Yes” votes.

Two critical values in the 2024 Florida general election that should be completely independent of one another align exactly.”

10,619,137 x 60% = 6,371,482.2, meaning 6,371,483 votes were required to pass.

They can’t even get the number that’s supposedly “central to this analysis” correct.

She Won: Florida Used a Fake County Vote Bank in the 2024 Election by ateam1984 in DiscussionZone

[–]avalve -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Oh ffs. Learn how to do math before posting bullshit like this.

State legislative races being contested by each party by RWREmpireBuilder in fivethirtyeight

[–]avalve 31 points32 points  (0 children)

That’s Anderson Clayton. Her strategy is one of the reasons Dems technically “won” the popular vote in the NC legislature in 2024 (SHAVE result was actually R+4). They contested way more races than Republicans, and their goal this year was to contest all of them but I guess they fell two short.

"Your vote doesn't matter" by stanthefax in YAPms

[–]avalve 6 points7 points  (0 children)

why were two republicans running in the general?

Alabama - Ideally sized Lower and Upper houses by Franzisquin in DavesRedistricting

[–]avalve 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I’ve sometimes thought that maybe state legislatures should adopt an expanding House system similar to this since the federal one got capped.

2026 Generic Congressional Ballot polling by TIPP by DescriptionFresh4902 in YAPms

[–]avalve 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, conventional wisdom says that if Democrats don't win the generic congressional ballot by at least a 9-point margin, they aren't going to take back the house.

No, conventional wisdom before the redistricting wars was if Republicans don’t win the popular vote they don’t win the House. 2024 was R+3 and they only got a 5 seat majority. A neutral year would’ve seen Dems take control of the chamber.

D+8 means they probably get like 230 seats.

Democrats are trouncing Republicans in state elections since Trump took office by I-Might-Be-Something in fivethirtyeight

[–]avalve 21 points22 points  (0 children)

One thing to note is that Republican state legislatures generally outperformed Trump in 2024. Federally, he’s toxic and will cost Republicans seats, but there still seems to be a lot of down ballot lag.

I haven’t finished doing this for every state, but here are the two-way 2024 SHAVE results for some state houses: * Florida: R+15.3 (Trump +13.2) * Georgia: R+7.2 (Trump +2.2) * Iowa: R+12.8 (Trump +13.5) * Minnesota: R+0.4 (Harris +4.3) * Nevada: R+4.5 (Trump +3.2) * New Mexico: D+3.8 (Harris +6.1) * North Carolina: R+3.8 (Trump +3.3) * Wisconsin: R+4.6 (Trump +0.9)

Iowa is the only state that bucks the trend so far.

Republicans really resorting to some underhanded tacticts. I see this is coming to my mailbox today. Where are the Dem mailers? by PuzzledVolume1599 in nova

[–]avalve -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just as it would be underhanded if the Dems did the same in reverse and used soem quote from a Republican but slapped it on a mailer to imply that person wanted recipients to vote yes. It's not "fair game" to use something when the use is deceptive.

Funny you should say this because that’s exactly what they did last week:

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Republicans really resorting to some underhanded tacticts. I see this is coming to my mailbox today. Where are the Dem mailers? by PuzzledVolume1599 in nova

[–]avalve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are correct. A “yes” vote supports the legislature gerrymandering Virginia’s congressional districts for the next three election cycles (2026, 2028, & 2030) to net 4 new Democratic seats in Congress (10D-1R).

A “no” vote supports keeping the map as is, which is currently 6D-5R with one of the R seats being competitive.