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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only way to overturn the vote is if there was some sort of procedural violation by the Democrats in the amendment to the Virginia constitution.

Last year, the Supreme Court held that partisan gerrymandering is not a violation of the US Constitution.

Last Tuesday, the voters approved amending Virginia's constitution to allow a mid-decade reapportionment.

Can someone find me a procedural violation? Or violations of the Virginia or US constitutions? The voters literally just amended the VA Constitution to allow this to happen. [/quote]

The General Assembly was not authorized to introduce the amendment during a special session that was limited to budgetary matters.[/quote]

DP. You're not doing this nonsense proper justice. That special session was called in May of 2024 and they resolved the budget issue in 2 days. The Dems refused to gavel out to close it so it was technically left open for almost 18 months. In October 2025, a week before election day, the Dems used that special session to pass the resolution for the gerrymandering, and then passed it a few days later. Meanwhile, early voting had been happening for over a month, with an estimated 1 million votes cast.

The procedural violations were a double whammy - improperly using the special session (that hadn't been touched in a year and a half) and ignoring the intervening election rule (since voting already began). They took a process that was supposed to take 2 years not about ten weeks.[/quote]

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