# Gerrymander Fail
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gerrymander-fail/729200
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [August 28, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gerrymander-fail/729200 "2015-08-28T18:58:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gerrymander-fail/729200/41 "2016-06-23T20:34:17Z")
Well the lawsuit mainly concerns the vote’s methodology rather than trucking in fake residents.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gerrymander-fail/729200/42 "2019-05-20T17:21:22Z")
Any update on how the lawsuit turned out?
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gerrymander-fail/729200/43 "2019-05-20T18:44:26Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#):
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> There was the _Popeye_ cartoon _Popeye for President_, where Popeye and Bluto are running for President and it turns out that it’s a tie, and only one person (Olive Oyl) hasn’t voted yet.
Also an Archie comic where he and Reggie wind up in a tie when running for class president, and everyone except Betty has voted.
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### Author:  [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gerrymander-fail/729200/44 "2019-05-21T11:51:56Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Any update on how the lawsuit turned out?
Wow, this is kind of bizarre.
So a judge dismissed the case in March 2016 but never put her ruling in writing. So the student couldn’t appeal. And finally just got a higher court to compel the judge to do so in February:
> **[State's high court orders judgment in Business Loop election lawsuit](https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/judge-must-decide-business-loop-lawsuit/article_6e0ad994-2fc7-11e9-841f-5f489a9e4a9f.html)**
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> The ruling came five months after judges heard oral arguments. Attorneys for plaintiff Jennifer Henderson said it should lead to actual action on the case.
No expert but that seems, really really unusual.
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### Author:  [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gerrymander-fail/729200/45 "2019-05-21T16:24:37Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> Also an Archie comic where he and Reggie wind up in a tie when running for class president, and everyone except Betty has voted.
There was a variation on this in an (animated) Archie TV show - I _think_ it was the one that introduced Sabrina - where it was Reggie running against Big Moose, and everyone but Dilton Doiley had voted.
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