Sentences with phrase «based gerrymandering»

Notwithstanding creation of a nonpartisan redistricting commission, the upstate Republican base will shrink due to death, outmigration, the end of state prison - based gerrymandering, and other demographic changes.

ALBANY — After a full election cycle and more than two years of legal maneuvering, a panel of three federal judges dismissed challenges to the Republican - drawn map of State Senate districts, saying population deviation that tilted numbers upstate were permissible and any allegation of race - based gerrymandering was «purely speculative.»

In both cases, the suburban additions were significantly more Democratic populations than the rural 31st was, leading to Democrats winning both portions of the divided territory and accusations of cracking - based gerrymandering.

From Liz's link to the NYT: [Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, who sponsored the legislation in the Assembly, said, «The practice of inmate - based gerrymandering fundamentally undermines the principal of one person, one vote, by reallocating political power to a handful of upstate, rural communities.»]

«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.»

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

Tory trolls like you undercut Labour because you know full well that that and the Gerrymandering are the only hope you have now what the LieDems have disintegrated their support base.

In Wisconsin, this was, in part, the basis of their gerrymandering case / challenge that will now be heard by the Supreme Court.

As New York prepares for the once - a-decade redistricting process based on census data, Gov. Cuomo has proposed that the electoral map be redrawn by an independent commission as opposed to the legislature, which has created some highly - gerrymandered districts in the past.

Even Democratic legislators that are focused on government reform, such as Assemblymember Robert Carroll, newly elected from Brooklyn, and Manhattan Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, have said they are concerned with the delegate selection process, which allows the representatives to be determined based on heavily gerrymandered Senate districts.

Pennsylvania's congressional district maps are almost certainly the result of gerrymandering according to an analysis based on a new mathematical theorem on bias in Markov Chains developed by Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh mathematicians.

In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.

(Most of the other partisan gerrymandering claims have been based on the First Amendment's speech and association rights or the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.)

To create evidence - based solutions to the problem of gerrymandering.