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Re:Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater... by Thrymr on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:11PM (#27228605)
> it doesn't matter what state the representative is associated with, and baring rounding errors the number of representatives would stay roughly the same?

The [Republican] Idaho legislature would get to gerrymand the districts instead of the [Democratic] Oregon legislature.

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Re:Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater... by Ericson2314 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:29PM (#27228750)
Fair point I didn't think that far. But now as I do, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho%27s_congressional_distri... they are all Republican by wide margin already, so there's no real gerrymandering to do.
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