Sentences with phrase «drawing voting districts»

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously endorsed election maps that bolster the growing political influence of America's Latinos, ruling that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in drawing voting districts.

«There are more ways to draw voting districts in the US than there are quarks in the Universe.»

Not exact matches

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

Only in our time do we draw electoral district lines so that black representatives may be assured of election without the inconvenience of having to solicit white votes.

The small Butterfield Park District will have to go back to the drawing board after a DuPage County development panel last month unanimously voted down the district's proposal to build a large fieldhouse in one of itDistrict will have to go back to the drawing board after a DuPage County development panel last month unanimously voted down the district's proposal to build a large fieldhouse in one of itdistrict's proposal to build a large fieldhouse in one of its parks.

Park Ridge — The Park District board agreed in a 7 - 0 vote Thursday night to present the Village Board with a proposal to authorize architects to draw up renovations for the Oakton Ice Rink.

So it is not hard to draw districts that give you a prescribed percentage of votes: for example, getting 51 %, 51 % and 0 % would be a very good outcome for a party holding 34 % of the total votes in a three - districts area.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

«It was one of the first bills I actually voted on when I finally got seated and I found it very ironic here I was in a gerrymandered district that had been drawn by for Republican Party and here I was voting for this and I stood up and said I don't support this because it enshrines our gerrymandered districts in the constitution and it's not an independent panel.»

(Also in the running were former NYC Councilman / current Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky, who was the only white candidate in the race and drew fire by moving into the district to take advantage of the split black vote; former Sen. Carl Andrews, and Owens» son, Chris).

An additional district, depending on how it's drawn, could help the GOP strengthen its current slim one vote majority in the Senate.

And they draw the boundaries of the electoral districts in which you live, work, and vote.

But the district was drawn four years ago specifically to be as advantageous to Republicans as possible, and they've since performed well there: Republican Mark Grisanti got over half the vote in a four - way race in 2012, and outgoing Democrat Marc Panepinto won with only 33 percent of the vote in 2014 when three registered Republicans and Conservatives split the remaining 67 percent.

The race in District 14, which we blogged extensively about yesterday is drawing city - wide coverage because Maria Baez may join the list of incumbents who were voted out.

She said Cuomo encouraged a «backroom deal» to get a group of Democratic senators to vote with the Senate GOP so that Republicans could keep control of the state Senate and added that he allowed the Republicans to draw their own gerrymandered district maps — a move she says suppressed Democratic voters.

If you want election districts to be drawn independently to more accurately group voters rather than to guarantee that a particular political party wins on Election Day, vote yes.

Suffolk Conservatives, whose ballot line can draw as much as 12 to 13 percent of the vote on Election Day, have endorsed Suffolk Police Commissioner Timothy Sini for district attorney this fall, county party chairman Frank Tinari said late Sunday.

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.

The phrase racial gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing electoral district lines to dilute the voting power of racial minority groups.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 mandates that electoral district lines can not be drawn in such a manner as to «improperly dilute minorities» voting power.»

«The only way a 25 percent party who received a quarter of a million few votes than the opposition can stay in power is through the selective and hyper - partisan drawing of district lines,» Shafran said.

Cecilia Tkaczyk, by 18 votes, winning despite the fact that the district was specifially drawn by the Senate GOP with Amedore in mind.

The district, which includes the Mohawk and Hudson valley regions, was drawn to maximize Republican votes.

He likes South Carolina's Sen. Lindsay Graham, «a man who wouldn't draw three votes in the 19th District.»

With ASDC's strong backing, I am confident about gaining the trust and votes of the majority in the new drawn congressional district.

Amedore, who was expected to easily win the race for a newly created Senate district that was drawn for him by the GOP, holds a slim 110 - vote lead, but nearly 900 votes that are believed to favor Tkaczyk are being contested.

Voters under 40 are twice as likely as their elders are to favor allowing illegal immigrants to vote, but they, too, draw the line at counting illegal immigrants when setting up legislative districts.

Before absentee ballots were counted — there were 459 in the district — incumbent Sarah Anker had 5,859 votes to Steven Tricarico's 5,858; Anker drew 88 votes on the WEP line while Tricarico received 87 as the Reform candidate.

In the Rockland County Legislature's 12th District, for example, the 2,064 votes Charles Falciglia drew on the Reform line not only surpassed the 975 he received as a Republican, but beat the aggregate 1,757 votes drawn by opponent Patsy Wooters on the Democratic, Green, Working Families and WEP lines.

Romney's total vote in the district, 137,317, according to calculations done by CQ Roll Call, was almost identical to the 137,669 votes that Reed drew last year.

Cruz drew about 20 percent of the vote in the district that includes much of the city of Rochester and the town of Gates.

Under the state's new map, drawn by a federal court, Obama would have won only 42 percent of the vote in the district in 2008.

In the 2008 presidential election, the residents within the newly drawn district voted 63 percent in favor of President Barack Obama, and 35 percent for U.S. Rep. John McCain (R - Ariz.)

Without the pre-clearance protection, lawmakers will not need approval next time they draw district lines and the city Board of Elections can use the old lever - operated voting machines without seeking clearance.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

In 2010, the four Democratic congressional candidates whose districts contained a portion of Monroe drew 47.18 percent of the votes cast in that country.

At the University of Illinois Urbana — Champaign, political statistician Wendy Tam Cho has designed algorithms to draw district maps that use the criteria mandated by state law, but do not include partisan information such as an area's voting history.

By comparison, every one of the 24,000 computer - drawn districts was less gerrymandered than either the 2012 or 2016 voting districts drawn by state legislators, which Mattingly, Graves and their colleagues reported in April 2017 (S. Bangia et al..

The U.S. Supreme Court last week weighed the constitutionality of the practice of drawing voting - district lines to boost the election prospects of candidates who are members of racial minorities.

There, state governments control everything from the drawing of district boundaries to the imposition of rules that, for instance, permanently forbid citizens who have ever been convicted of a felony from voting.

As near as I can tell, this law essentially requires cities to draw council districts in such a way that the number of districts where the minority citizens - of - voting - age population (CVAP) forms a majority of the total district CVAP is roughly proportional to the total minority population as a proportion of the total population of the city.