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Let voters, not politicians, decide elections in democracy
Gulf Today
|August 19, 2025
The effort in Texas to hastily redraw congressional maps for partisan advantage reveals vulnerabilities in our democratic system, subject to exploitation by bad actors.

As this crisis escalates into multiple states, it threatens the notion that voters should determine who wins elections.
Driving the effort to rig these maps is President Donald Trump's anxiety over potentially losing control of the US House of Representatives in next year’s midterm elections. To avoid that outcome, Trump asked Texas Republicans to redraw voter boundaries in order to add five more Republican seats.
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