Sentences with phrase «about gerrymandering»

It wouldn't be surprising if a political science professor used Senate District 60 to teach her students about gerrymandering.

If any teacher wanted to instruct students about gerrymandering, a field trip to state Sen. Tony Avella's (D - Bayside) district might be a good place to start.

Claims about gerrymandering are political in nature.

Perhaps you don't remember, but in 1980 and 1990, Republicans complained about gerrymandering a lot.

All of the previous was just background about gerrymandering.

I've been writing a paper about Gerrymandering, but whilst reading about Electoral Districts, I started to wonder.

There's a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts look like?

Around three quarters, 76 %, believe the «lack of transparency» over the policy issues decided that night are a «serious» problem, and 68 % were concerned about the gerrymandered new district lines.

Not exact matches

It's not the «fault» of those that live in rural areas that their influence is so exagerated; I think a large part of it was the PC's DELIBERATE gerrymandering of constituencies (about 20 or so years ago) to ensure that any urban opposition would be diluted by rural supporters.

Before the Dominion Elections Act (1920), voting in Canadian federal elections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recommend it).

Listen to Slate's show about the census citizenship question, Trump's (lack of) legal representation, and gerrymandering.

Other potential showstoppers include a case about partisan gerrymandering and another round on President Trump's executive order on immigration.

Obviously gerrymandering is not a new concept, but it seems that all the news I hear about it is related to Republicans trying to suppress liberal (particularly urban and low - income) voting groups.

It won't eliminate gerrymandering, either, although it reduces its maximum effectiveness to about a 1.71 to 1 ratio (about 12 to 7.)

Gerrymandering is all about drawing electoral boundaries such that the artifact of most electoral systems (that one citizen's vote doesn't translate directly into voting weight in parliament) can override the natural outcome of a vote.

It really does defeat the idea of open primaries, which are about as close as you are going to get towards fielding candidates that the public want to represent them if you are going to gerrymander the lists.

Like, if the Republicans continue to control the Senate thanks to a Cuomo - approved gerrymander plus five defections that the governor was perfectly OK with, and then over the course of the next couple of years their conference blocks campaign finance reform and drug reform and a hike of the minimum wage, doesn't it become somewhat more difficult for Cuomo to explain to Democratic primary voters why he didn't just do something about it?

Iain, regarding the accusations of planned gerrymandering, it is all very well talking about the impartiality of the Electoral Commission but Cameron has announced his intention to slash its funding - while at the same time enforcing a massive reorganisation of boundaries by cutting the number of seats by 10 %.

He has boasted about his ability to work with the current Republican leadership, and has been helpful to the conference's efforts to hang onto the majority, from his approval of a majority - gerrymandered district map to his general - election endorsement of a Republican incumbent who had voted for same - sex marriage.

Owing to natural clustering of Democratic voters and Republican gerrymandering, Democrats probably need to win the House popular vote by about seven points to take control.

In contrast, a real area representative doing his / her job would have been screaming about the blatant gerrymandering and crying foul at that time way before the decision was made.

Is there any good analysis about how many seats were lost because of gerrymandering that happened after 2008?

But some Labour MPs have accused the coalition of gerrymandering while some Lib Dems are reported to be unhappy about the prospect of losing seats in the shake - up - agreed as a package earlier this year in combination with May's referendum on the voting system.

Learn more about redistricting and gerrymandering

More typical is the fact that these two battles are about a lot more than simply one district that snakes, gerrymander - style, through the Bronx and captures a bit of Westchester County, too, and another that hugs the northeast corner of Queens.

So the argument wasn't about the implausibility of a partisan gerrymander - scheme, but about upstate versus downstate, which never gets old.

There has been a fair bit of discussion about whether it's a good idea to reduce the HoC to 600, and whether the new boundaries constitute gerrymandering in favour of the Conservatives.

But I suppose that is a rather insignificant observation when you look at what New York Public Interest Group's Bill Mahoney has to say about the proposed maps as a whole.He says, the Senate's maps are, «clearly the most gerrymandered lines in recent New York History.»

We actually changed our system to MMP proportional representation because of gerrymandering problems, and after about 20 years the vast majority are happy with MMP according to various polls.

It happened several weeks before the Supreme Court heard arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a Wisconsin case that was the first major lawsuit about partisan gerrymandering to be taken up by the justices in 14 years.

There have been many similar «civic education» video games out there, like the UN video game to teach kids about world hunger and, my personal favorite, a video game to teach kids how to gerrymander voting districts to get political support.

As Ilya Somin and David Bernstein point out at Volokh Conspiracy, Sotomayor also gerrymanders «race» in a way convenient to her purposes, using it to include Hispanic - Americans (who aren't a race) while breathing not one word about Asian - Americans (a more genuine racial classification whose situation of being both historically disadvantaged * and * discriminated against in university admissions cries out for recognition).

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.

Franita Tolson published an op - ed about how the Supreme Court deals with cases involving allegations of partisan gerrymandering.

With an AI in charge we wouldn't have to worry about our democracy being stolen, sold, rigged, gerrymandered, or given away.