SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL: The unfairness of gerrymandering in Pennsylvania never has been more obvious than in the wake of the most recent congressional elections. Despite a substantial registration advantage and an aggregate plurality of about 80,000 votes, Democrats lost 13 of 18 congressional seats.
Now state Rep. Daylin Leach, a Democrat who long has advocated against gerrymandering, has drawn an illustrative map based on the most recent election that points not only to the insult to democracy inherent in gerrymandering, but how the state process adversely affects governance.
Without changing a single vote from the 2012 elections, Mr. Leach drew a map that flipped eight districts from Republican to Democrat… (more)
