What would you call a political system that had a legislature with 228 seats up for election, but in 111 of those races, there was only one candidate on the ballot? That is just short of half of the legislative seats in which voters had no choice. You certainly wouldn’t call it a democracy.
You could, however, call it Pennsylvania. Those were the statistics from the last election in 2016. I learned that at a Fair Districts Pennsylvania presentation tonight at the Palmerton Library.
Everybody knows how government no longer works, largely because of the results of a gerrymandered legislature. Unfortunately, the bipartisan bill to set up an independent commission to draw fair districts can’t even get out of committee. It’s Pennsylvania.
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