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		bobwaycott on June 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Australian government shelves controversial data r... > "... seats are laid out by a politically neutral Electoral Commission. There's no gerrymandering ..." Would love to see this here in the states.

tacticus on June 25, 2013 | [–]

Some parts of .au only recently got independant bodies (though federal elections are always managed by the federal body)

jacques_chester on June 24, 2013 | [–]

Yeah. We actually have a pretty sensible system in Australia.

When I first heard that some parts of the US have elected electoral officials ... well, I boggled.

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