Sentences with phrase «as gerrymandered»

Reaction to the state and congressional maps was drastically different, with independent groups and elected officials blasting the state lines as gerrymandered to keep Senate Republicans in power, while praising the congressional lines drawn by a court - appointed judge as fairly drawn.

As things stand Labour, which campaigned at the election on holding a referendum on AV, is not going to support the bill because of what it sees as gerrymandering.

Cuomo, however, said the process commonly referred to as gerrymandering, which involves drawing a jigsaw puzzle of lines in order to keep incumbent parties in power, needs to end.

town versus country) or by artificial «fixing» of divisions (such as gerrymandering, in which the boundaries of electoral districts are abused by the party in power, or by varying the number of electors in different districts).

Successive arrangements by governments of all political characters have been attacked as gerrymandering.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Brennan Center for Justice will hold a book talk with MSNBC's Zachary Roth on the quieting of voices of people of color, students, and other disadvantaged groups through means such as gerrymandering and Supreme Court Decisions.

On the other hand, Labour could abandon AV under a smokescreen of antipathy to a reduction of Commons seats that it falsely condemns as a gerrymander, in the hope of shattering the Cameron - Clegg alliance.

Equalising seats is not the same thing as gerrymandering them, provided it is done in the right way.

Threading boundaries between and through centres of population on the pretext of ensuring fairness is also a great way to cheat for your own benefit — a practice known as gerrymandering, after a 19th - century governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, who created an electoral division whose shape reminded a local newspaper editor of a salamander.

They lost the popular vote 52 % to 48 %, but won due to what could only be described as a gerrymander.

Not exact matches

In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

Swisher refers to 12b - 1 compensated advisors in a fiduciary world as a «case study of a potential prohibited transaction in my book» that would «require some legal gerrymandering» to justify.

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).

As Tom Delay found out in in Texas in 2003, one can still get a lot of what others would call gerrymandering past the court.

One of the simplest means of dealing with this even retains the electoral college: have the EC allocate its votes for each state proportionately to the vote, regardless of electoral district (which also renders gerrymandering almost irrelevant, since the state is considered as a whole).

Note that gerrymandering generally includes this as part of its goals, as unbalanced population is a reason to invalidate districts.

The efficiency gap, as explained in Stephanopoulos and McGhee (2015), measures Gerrymandering using the notion of wasted votes (see a quick overview at How the Efficiency Gap Works (PDF)-RRB-.

There are some other key implications of multi-member districts in addition to their impact on gerrymandering as well, however.

It seems like a good test for partisan gerrymanders that are unfair, but there would be a lot of other factors or dimensions (as discussed in the other answers - things like common economic interests) that might also make a district's representation unfair even within the efficiency threshold.

Edit: Since this question has created some discussion as to what is Gerrymandering, what is its impact and how can it influence elections, let me suggest something that brings you from zero knowledge to «pretty much aware of the situation»: The redistricting game.

I might write it as: gerrymandering keeps one person one vote, while the EC violates that through historical weighting and unequal state populations.

The voting population of gerrymandered districts is distributed so as to provide «safe» margins of victory in many districts while «wasting» opposition votes concentrated in a few districts.

The product is the «hyper - partisan,» in his words, lines which LATFOR, the state's legislative redistricting arm, came out with, that gerrymander the districts in such a way as to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate and the Democratic majority in the Assembly.

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.

In 1988, Tony helped state Senator, Serphin Maltese get elected and as payback Tony was gerrymandered to send a message, don't ever help out the GOP.

«When it comes to the Senate lines, the people of Woodhaven are being treated as pawns in Albany's gerrymandering games,» said Alexander Blenkinsopp, spokesman for the association.

When the lines for state Senate and state Assembly seats were unveiled last week, the drawn districts were widely criticized across the borough and viewed as breaking up communities and gerrymandering the districts to suit elected officials.

Despite all the speculation on whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo will stick to his pledge to veto LATFOR's gerrymandered and politically influenced district lines, there's a growing possibility that he'll never get the chance because the maps — as they currently stand — might not make it out of the Legislature at all.

ALBANY — Many supporters of the state referendum to convene a constitutional convention are citing as reason the possibilities to diminish incumbent - friendly campaign finance laws, enact term limits and end gerrymandered districts.

Mr. Larson is an advocate for campaign finance reform on the federal level, as well as tax reform, limits on congressional gerrymandering, increased Connecticut and U.S. manufacturing and other useful measures.

But to create that independent entity means passing a law, something that State Senate Republicans, clinging to a narrow, gerrymander - aided majority in that chamber, have resisted as a matter of life and death.

«As a lawmaker, I fought to end the practice of prison - based gerrymandering that distorted the democratic process and undermined the principle of «one person, one vote.»

[citation needed] Most notably, gerrymandering is particularly effective in non-proportional systems that tend towards fewer parties, such as first past the post.

He's rationalized his retreat in increments, from his warning that a court - run redrawing of the lines would result in «chaos,» to the subjective conditions he laid out for an acceptable gerrymander, to his uncharacteristic claim of powerlessness, to his criticism of an independent judge's congressional map, to his lightly supported characterization of the latest gerrymandered legislative draft - map as «progress» from the previous gerrymandered version.

Gerrymandering can also be done to help incumbents as a whole, effectively turning every district into a packed one and greatly reducing the potential for competitive elections.

[142]: 916 [143]: 621 If a court concludes that racial considerations predominated, then the redistricting plan is considered «racially gerrymandered» and must be subjected to strict scrutiny, meaning that the redistricting plan will be upheld as constitutional only if it is narrowly tailored to advance a compelling state interest.

Progressives have long accused Cuomo of disingenuously propping up the Senate Republican majority so he can use it as a convenient excuse — a buffer against having both legislative houses controlled by left - of - center Democrats — pointing to maneuvers like his 2012 deal with Skelos on a redistricting plan that gerrymandered districts in favor of the GOP.

Some countries, such as Australia, Canada, and the UK, authorize non-partisan organizations to set constituency boundaries in an attempt to prevent gerrymandering.

The 2012 election provides a number of examples as to how partisan gerrymandering can adversely affect the descriptive function of states» congressional delegations.

In particular, the use of multi-member districts alongside voting systems establishing proportional representation such as single transferable voting can reduce wasted votes and gerrymandering.

The Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974 was planned as a major reversal of previous gerrymandering by Fianna Fáil (then in opposition).

Sure, if he follows through on his promise to veto their gerrymander, the New York Times editorial board will cheer, but then, for as long as he remains in this particular office, Cuomo will have to live with either a vengeful Republican Senate majority or a dysfunctional Democratic one, which may turn out to be even worse for him.

This disparity is tied to the Democrats» inefficient distribution of their votes — primarily resulting from the Democratic vote being naturally more concentrated, and in some cases (such as in North Carolina, where Democrats won four of 13 seats while winning the statewide popular vote in House races) due to gerrymandered maps.

In the court's majority opinion, Kagan described the two - part analysis utilized by the high court when plaintiffs allege racial gerrymandering as follows: «First, the plaintiff must prove that «race was the predominant factor motivating the legislature's decision to place a significant number of voters within or without a particular district.»

This type of unintentional gerrymandering does take place on a massive scale on the state level, as well.

I suppose that, as @PoloHoleSet says, gerrymandering could have indirect results.

In 2010, our State put an end to decades of the unfair and undemocratic redistricting practice known as prison gerrymandering.

I suppose when the state borders were originally drawn Congress may have tried to do some gerrymandering, but any such effort would have only short - term value as people move and political opinions change.

However, the division of territory into states itself has been alleged to be a consequence of gerrymandering, specifically in the late 19th Century the Republican party ensured that more states were created in territories friendly to their party, notable Dakota being admitted as two states and not as one.

A new poll finds that while New Yorkers still think very highly of Governor Cuomo, they are not as happy with recent developments in Albany that include a secretive, middle of the night legislative session, and gerrymandered legislative district lines.