AOC: Redrawing of Voting Districts Allow Politicians To Choose Their Voters Not the Other Way Around

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: “Yeah, I don’t think that it can really be undersold. It really can’t be understated how fragile of a situation we’re in right now. And this attack on our democracy starts in the state legislatures, as you mentioned. There is a very explicit attack on voter rights, particularly in states like Georgia, Arizona, and especially on black voters in addition to immigrant communities, Latino voters, Asian voters, Native American voters, and so on. As you mentioned, this is extremely scary, because we are in a census redistricting time. And once we get that data back from the U.S. Census Bureau, every single U.S. congressional seat will potential I will be redrawn. And that redrawing of those boundaries creates a situation where politicians start really choosing their voters instead of the other way around.”