cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49196068
Starting Friday, Arizonans will have to prove they’re old enough to access nude photos and sexual activity online.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250920182330/https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/article_9910862c-cd28-4da6-9684-aa7130aca93a.html
Unfortunately the way voters are spread out the Republicans have sort of a natural gerrymander. The cities tend to be grouped together in Big Blocks of democratic voters and the countryside is very spread out Republican.
I know Arizona passed a law taking away the drawing of legislative districts from lawmakers and giving it to an independent commission, here in Michigan we did the same thing later on in 2018. From when they gerrymandered it after 2010 until that time it was solidly Republican House and Senate.
Eh, man, that Independent commission is suspect as hell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona's_congressional_districts
So, I used to be in CD2 now I’m in CD6. Used to be fairly democratic leaning in CD2, but CD6 expanded to include the conservative portions of the Foothils and Oro Valley and even goddamn Casa Grande! Hell, they even cut out Douglass and Naco, the border towns, to make it consistently conservative. CD2’s (circa 2020) borders made sense! CD6’s does not.
Don’t even get me started on Paul fucking Gosar in CD9 and negating parts of Phoenix with Rural votes over 300 miles away.
So, I dunno how in the hell the comission is “independent” because these lines are convoluted as hell.