Gerrymandering: How politicians rig elections

Fortunately, the extraordinarily egregious political practice of hyperpartisan gerrymandering is explicitly forbidden in Canada.

Wow, this was filmed at 200k subscribers, now 11 million!!

“Independent commissions”

I like how this video is trying to educate us about america but then slaps it down and praises canada after braging about how polite canadians are.

Here we go again

Everyone gangsta with gerrymandering until the other party does it

In America you get to choose your leaders....
Politicians: UNO REVERSE CARD
Citizens: I’m in trouble

There is a simple solution, a solution that is based on reality. Congressional Districts today mean nothing. Voters rarely know the candidates personally. Why not eliminate Congressional Districts and have candidates run for at-large seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ranked choice ballots would assure that candidates running as independents would have a fair chance of being elected.

Is there anything Canada doesn’t do better then America

In the UK we have BOTH first past the post AND Jerrymandering

Nice eh, we put a talking mop in charge recently. He killed over 60,000 Britons with his policy of maintaining his economic profits over a pandemic lockdown.

In what world is 8 million=200k

this video was a whole mess, the music had me dying loll

Just allow only 4 lines when drawing a district. Problem solved (to a happy medium of fair and politics)

Weird.

If things don’t change soon Canada better start building a wall to stop our great northern immigration to the promised land.

This old video underated.. need to bump it up! I guess no progress have been made to address this?

This is bipartisan issue no one want want to address..

2018 and you’ve got 5 million! Congrats on such quick growth!

ROBIN SPARKLESSS

LOL he talks about them wanting all 200,000 subs to have a chance to see it... we're now 3 years past the reupload, the sub counter is closing in on FIVE MILLION and the video has less than 200,000 views. D'Oh! Something went horribly wrong with the people subbing to Vox ;-)

We need to switch to the shortest split line (or the closest we can get to that keeping counties together). Math has no bias unless you're Einstein or someone.

Lol how I met your mother reference XDDD

now there is like 3.8 million subs........

As a Canadian, I am so sorry your political system is so messed up. Also, I was watching this to study for my political science midterm, gerrymandering is now very clear to me 😂

LOL, "wear a nice polite country as a hat" (Canada)! You've got a new subscriber Vox! Cheers~

If Americans were any smart they wouldn't register for a party or lie and confuse the politicians.

"Now there is 3.2 million of you, so we thought maybe we should reupload this for you guys."

why is Canada so good at everything

Now 3 million

My favourite part is the start, see how I write favourite? Hehe.

Wow! A great video and very good synthesis in just < 3 minutes. Be blessed!

I accuse you, Trump of Gerrymandering!

the us shall always be Canada's pants

As a tuque!

0:05 then why has every Canadian I've ever met been a judgemental idiot??


Is the quiet majority hiding from me or something or are other people just blind???

This will NOT be the gerrymandering video i share. It does not really explain how the districts are drawn up. The music is distracting. The comments about how great Canada is compared to the USA will make this vid offensive to some, thus reducing your receptive audience. The creative metaphors about the shapes of the districts does not make anything clearer.

Or get rid of constiuencies altogether. It made sense to have your own representative in the 18th and 19th centuries, but today we have the internet and all issues are national issues. Imagine how much better we would be if we had a Party-List Proportional Voting system... That means each party gives a list of their 535 candidates, and you vote for parties. If one party gets 35% of the vote, then the top 35% of candidates on their list get sworn into office, etc. That way if a third party gets 5% of the national vote, they get to fill 5% of Congress instead of 0%. Diversity of ideas is more important than diversity of geography.

thumbs up for that himym reference

How is allowing random chance to decide elections, through arbitrary district lines, any better?

I haven't really understood who of the politicians chooses...? like the democrats and the republicans both want it to work in their favour right?

We Canada aren't your hat your our pants

The assumption that Canada has a better electoral system is mistaken. Many a Canadian party with a minority of popular vote has formed the government with our first past the post system. We are also in need of electoral reform that ensures more democratic outcomes. With proportional representation, for instance, we'd have circa half a dozen greens in parliament now, except just the one.
Deciding leadership strictly by popular vote has its own inherent dangers in that, without some checks and balances, a representative voice for other platform voters can suffer unfairly to the point of societal rupture. But it certainly looks like some adjustments needs to be made to the US Electoral College to provide a fairer election - and purging the country of egregious electoral suppression in some areas would seem like a critically priority for any democracy-loving citizenry to address.

in 2016, a video about how politicians can't rig elections in u.s. (the legal way) -__-

You just made a video bashing trump about how American elections "can't be rigged" lmao make up your minds/agendas