Is Virginia's Supreme Court Right About The Voting Period?

Maybe. Or maybe there's a bigger moral issue baked into all this.

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Perhaps here I can shed a little extra light on what happened with the Virginia gerrymander fiasco. Now, from what I can tell, these measures, constitutional amendments like the kind that they tried to push through in Virginia, according to the rules of play in Virginia, e.g., their state constitution, you have to get a majority of Congress folk in the General Assembly, which is their Senate and representatives, majority has to choose it, and then it goes to an election later down the line, where then afterwards the new Senate, the new House of General Assembly has to vote for it again. Which means that in between, the voters can choose different representatives to vote for this constitutional amendment for or against. There. And they waited until near the end of it to add this amendment in. Which meant if you had already made your election, you'd already elected free person, and that person votes for this thing that you would not have wanted them to vote for, you no longer have a say in it. In fact, you elected somebody under false pretenses, which is, like the kids say, a cheap shot. And that's why the state Supreme Court called it back, because it was a filthy move against the rules of the game. Rules of the game, which were set up to prevent this very sort of abuse. So yeah, maybe the General Assembly and legislature and all that, maybe they got a point that this is just being picky-packy over words. Or maybe, just maybe, they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar and they want to yell at mommy for getting them in trouble. Cheers.