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Pete Buttigieg: “We had to do a whole law to make sure you couldn't…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete's Message, Back in New Hampshire

Published | Video Starts at 12:35

And so the system being broken meant that we had to fix it. Which is why we Put the presidency in its place. And we fixed Congress, too. We had to do a whole law to make sure you couldn't gerrymander elections. So they were decided before the first votes cast. That's why you live in a representative democracy today. (12:35–12:39)

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Asserts that legislation was enacted to prevent gerrymandering.

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