# NC Federal House Districts unconstitutionally gerrymandered **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nc-federal-house-districts-unconstitutionally-gerrymandered/806306 **Category:** Politics & Elections **Created:** [January 10, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nc-federal-house-districts-unconstitutionally-gerrymandered/806306 "2018-01-10T12:00:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 25
### Author: ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker) #### Post date: [January 11, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nc-federal-house-districts-unconstitutionally-gerrymandered/806306/25 "2018-01-11T01:49:49Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Now, it just so happens that the overwhelming bias of our current voting system skews against African Americans, in various well-documented ways. So a lot of the work in the direction of fairness will mean moving toward more voting power for African Americans. But that doesn’t specifically mean we should engage in the sort of finger-on-the-scale you’re suggesting; rather, we should make sure that our systems are both accurate and precise enough that they stop wasting the votes of anyone. That might increase Democratic wins. Lucky break, eh? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nc-federal-house-districts-unconstitutionally-gerrymandered/806306)._