My wife and I just cast our ballots in Virginia’s special election, which invites Virginia voters to approve a constitutional amendment to “temporarily” adopt new congressional districts. We knew going in that the amendment is an abomination, but as I marked “no” on my ballot, I found myself reflecting, with something akin to horror, on just how appallingly dishonest the phrasing of the amendment truly is — and how much this dishonesty is representative of the way Virginia Democrats have chosen to do business for at least the last decade.
The amendment reads as follows: “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census.”
The amendment, a product of the Democrat-controlled General Assembly, promoted now by our new governor, Abigail Spanberger, has been accompanied by a redistricting map depicting what the Democrats in Richmond mean by the term “fairness.” The existing Virginia congressional districts, drawn six years ago by a bipartisan commission, resulted in 2024 in a congressional delegation with six Democrat seats and five Republican. This tracked very closely with how Virginia voted overall in the presidential balloting, with 52 percent voting for Harris and 46 percent for Trump.
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