Redistricting Pros And Cons

When this biased districting was found, the court decided to redo the redistricting and shift part of one district to the other so that there would be equal representation of each party (Supreme Court Justices). Although redistricting based on party affiliation is important, it is not always the main cause. “While partisan gerrymanders have been accepted by the courts, racial ones have not. The Voting Rights Act requires map makers to consider race to a point” (Supreme Court Justices). Race clearly contributes to the way people vote, but it also is not allowed to be tampered with in many ways because there can be no discriminatory factors. With redistricting in mind, some demands would be fair and nondiscriminatory districts that will be …show more content…
One can assume that a felon may be of the lower class, not as financially stable as others because of their time spent not working, and possibly Democrat. This is why Republicans would suggest that the timing of this law being passed was not a coincidence. The right for felons to vote may increase the number of voter turnout and the number of those who are able to vote. Therefore, this law may have a good impact on the voter turnout overall. There have been different opinions about the felons’ voting rights, but the fact that a majority of them may be Democrats makes those of the opposite party hesitant about the race for president. The balance of parties is an important factor in the new felons’ voting law because that is what is making controversy. So, if there was any way to prove that this law is being carried out in solely a partisan way, then maybe there would be more people for the law rather than against it. The Republican party and Democratic party seem to be in conflict with one another over the right for felons to vote, which is seen as a demand in the systems model. However, some people, such a Governor McAuliffe, are in complete support of this new law which is seen as the …show more content…
However, one can suspect that there will be new supports and demands from each topic. Redistricting will have to be redone in a few years and there may be another nonpartisan attempt to pack a certain group of people in one district to try and increase the votes for a certain candidate. People are already questioning the felons’ voting rights case, as mentioned previously, by wondering if it is safe to let those who broke the law vote on it. These questionable thoughts will eventually cause new inputs that will have to be put back into the system and decided on once again. The new voter ID law already has feedback coming from those who are not able to get an ID or do not have the time to. The law has been put back into consideration due to those problems and the decision that was made in North Carolina about their voter ID law. In North Carolina the defendant of the voter ID law argued that there was “no evidence of discriminatory evidence” even though the Supreme Court denied that the law be reinstated before the presidential election (U.S. Appeals Court). Even though the decision has yet to be made as whether to keep or discard the voter ID law, Virginia may follow North Carolina and find it should not be reinstated. Regardless, each of these voting topics will have feedback that comes from the output that was decided by the system. The systems model will continue to