Series: Don't Let Coal Gerrymander Your Elections
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Whatcom County, Washington, is a battleground for both anti-fossil fuel and pro-democracy crusaders. The articles below describe how fossil-fuel interests tried to use campaign money and voting reforms to further their agenda, how district-only voting could debilitate local representative democracy, and how proportional representation voting could ensure that county power always resides with the people.