Sentences with phrase «at gerrymandering»

Consequently, the term «Tullymandering» was used to describe the phenomenon of a failed attempt at gerrymandering.

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Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

The odds that someone trying to gerrymander multi-member districts will screw it up and end up hurting (or at least not helping) the party that they are trying to favor when they draw district lines is much greater.

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-.

The point of gerrymandering is to achieve a massed result different from the massed popular vote, which is the same criticism leveled at the electoral collage.

In other developments, reports emerged of Nigel Farage allegedly holding fascist views and singing pro-Hitler songs at school while a former Ukip MEP said the candidate selection process was «gerrymandered».

At - large districts are worst form of gerrymandering unless accompanied by some form of proportional representation in that at - large districAt - large districts are worst form of gerrymandering unless accompanied by some form of proportional representation in that at - large districat - large district.

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.

Gerrymandering is a problem; a Representative could have their voter base diluted across neighboring districts at the whim of the controlling party.

It seems to at the very least weaken gerrymandering.

Largely because gerrymandering can't be applied at a state level; everyone in the state gets to vote for the same candidate.

The Democrats, who continue to insist they have a shot at winning back the majority this fall despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approval of a gerrymandered redistricting map that benefits the GOP, remain more than $ 1 million in debt from the 2010 elections in which they lost control of the chamber.

The entire process whiffs of gerrymandering when calculations by the House of Commons library found that at the 2017 general election the Tories got one seat for every 43,018 votes nationally compared with Labour's 49,152 per MP or Liberal Democrats» 197,665 and Green's 525,665.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the alternative (the approach currently used by Nebraska and Maine) would make for an even more lopsided electoral outcome due to gerrymandering.

With Republicans controlling both state chambers, the congressional delegation was expected to remain at six Republicans and one Democrat, which was not lost on critics, who alleged racial discrimination and political gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering, which can be traced back to at least 1788, has resulted in 69 of 99 state legislatures and both houses in 35 states to be controlled by Republicans in a country in which both parties are pretty evenly represented, with Democrats slightly ahead.

At a Republican gathering Sunday evening, City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) criticized the Democratic leadership in the state Assembly for redrawing legislative boundaries in a way that gerrymandered part of one northeast Queens district and minimized the voice of GOP voters.

At the end of the film, viewers are encouraged to visit a website in order protest against and / or reform gerrymandering.

Redistricting on Steroids is the gerrymandering model David Daley revealed in his June 8th appearance at VID

Virtually every legislative district at every level of government — federal, state and municipal — is gerrymandered.

Laws are typically state - wide, affecting all groups at once, so when a party sues the state, the party almost always has something to recover from the investment; even if just a few more gerrymandered statehouse slots or mayors.

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.

This Green Paper was Cheryl Gillan's attempt at rigging Wales» electoral map in the same way that her Cabinet colleagues were trying to gerrymander the results of the next general election.

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 %.

In November, voters will be able to approve a constitutional amendment that will require district lines to be drawn by an independent, bipartisan commission and at least three members who were not appointed by the majority conferences in either house must approve a plan before the Legislature votes on it, a key barrier to partisan gerrymandering.

«I believe you and your department at best may be charged with utterly and hopelessly failing the general public over these elections, and at worst may stand accused of gerrymandering.

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.

Elections are run at the state level, so a state - gerrymandered election could alter that balance of power in the state legislature, which would effect things like voter - suppression measures, enactment and enforcement of campaign finance regulations, and the ability of elections to be monitored and for rules to be enforced by non-partisan (or partisan) entities.

Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group said a statistical analysis shows the Senate's proposal is «clearly the most gerrymandered lines» in at least 30 years.

Dilan still has doubts on prison gerrymandering Legislative Gazette Former Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benjamin, who supported a bill that would require inmates to be counted at their previous address, said the 2010 law... (Read more)

Senate District 31 is a gem of gerrymandering, running from Marble Hill and Inwood at the upper reaches of Manhattan, through Washington Heights, down a swath of West Harlem and the Upper West Side, into Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea.

The lame - duck Legislature of 1964 met for a special session at the State Capitol in Albany from December 15 to 31, 1964, to re-apportion the legislative districts for the election in November 1965, gerrymandering the districts according to the wishes of the Republican majority before the Democrats would take over the Legislature in January.

The right isn't currently on the fringe, and I suspect that it won't be until at least 2010 after the next round of gerrymandering.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says if the constitutional amendment is accompanied by a law that also requires the lines to be drawn in a less partisan manner, then it would be at least an improvement from the present system of unlimited gerrymandering.

Three delegates would be elected from each of the state's 63 heavily gerrymandered Senate districts and 15 at large delegates would be elected from the state as a whole.

One answer to Quinn's question: Progressives believe (with some cause) that Cuomo has abetted GOP control of the State Senate by coddling the turncoat Democrats of the IDC and approving gerrymandered district maps that aid upstate Republicans — and (with indisputable cause) that Albany is a bastion of corruption where well - heeled interests (most conspicuously, New York City developers) can purchase favors at bargain prices.

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.

«The gerrymandering that happened at the hands of the county legislature that the Dem [ocrat] s sued for, for what they called gerrymandering and institutionalized racism.

Gerrymandering: at the moment, the system is biased towards Labour; the other changes as I understand them, which are not subject to the referendum and therefore irrelevant to this debate, will reduce (but not eliminate) this bias.

Those legislatures then gerrymandered congressional districts in such a way that will likely keep the House under Republican control until at least 2022.

In a move reminiscent of the one that redistricted Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries out of the Brooklyn district in which he lived back in 2002 — landing him a star turn in that cult classic, «Gerrymandering» — the Republicans bumped Adams right out of the 20th SD, making a little dip right at the neck joint of this goose - like new distrtict.

«One, is the gerrymandering that occurs allowing lawmakers to draw their own district lines... [two is] a disgraceful campaign finance system that allows them to hit up special interests for ridiculous amounts of money,» said Blair Horner, executive director at the New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to a lack of «pay - to - play» restrictions on campaign donors with government business.

Labour's attempt to throw money at the north is pure gerrymandering and will achieve nothing in real terms.

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.»

The governor touted the legislature's agreement to pass a constitutional amendment that might curb gerrymandering, though many observers consider it deeply problematic, and then added, «Most of the critics on redistricting, when you look at it, they tend to be either self - interested for their own politics or hypocritical, frankly.»

In a separate analysis, Daniel McGlone, a geographic - information - system data analyst at the technology firm Azavea in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ranked each state's voting districts for compactness as a measure of gerrymandering, and found that Maryland had the most - gerrymandered districts.

Political scientist Nicholas Stephanopoulos at the University of Chicago, Illinois, takes a much simpler approach to measuring gerrymandering.

The project began when geographer Clio Andris, a former Santa Fe Institute postdoctoral fellow now at Pennsylvania State University, wondered whether the interwoven House districts created by gerrymandering might actually foster cooperation.

«It's important to have rigorous ways of demonstrating [gerrymandering], so the decision is not just another partisan debate,» says Wesley Pegden, a mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who worked on the theorem.

An enabling majority in Congress amplifies the risk that these dangerous policies will emerge and that an electorate that has been at least somewhat disenfranchised by Gerrymandering, voter suppression on the part of republicans, and overall intimidation and abuse, will continue to generate harmful and worsening fractures in American society.