Sentences with phrase «election district maps»

Not exact matches

Each map has a different goal: One is designed to encourage competitive elections, for example, and another to maximize the number of majority - minority districts.

The Kaminsky victory in the 9th Senate district also narrows the November battleground map heading into the fall elections, making other suburban seats, like the one held by Latimer, potential targets.

Saratoga County Republican Board of Elections Commissioner Roger Schiera talked to YNN and told us the maps that were provided to them were not as accurate as he would have liked, forcing officials to go street to street to try and figure out which house is in which district.

The Senate Republicans may have drawn their own special election candidate David Storobin out of the district he's running in, but Mr. Storobin says he'll simply move into the newly created Orthodox Jewish district if the maps hold.

Also, I've found it interesting since 2000 that if you look at a map of the presidential elections by county or House district, there's a clear blue belt across the middles of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia — presumably where the most black voters live.

It is one of a handful of districts that became more favorable to Democrats after the Senate map was redrawn ahead of the 2016 elections.

«Every male Democratic member of Congress has a path to run — even in a difficult district — and still win election, but the court's maps are a real hit to women,» the source said.

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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.

A jurisdiction subject to preclearance needed to get approval from the U.S. Department of Justice before changing election laws or district maps.

According to a source familiar with the results of these polls, Hanna's numbers improved in the Binghamton and Utica portions of the district — two areas on which his TV ad buys have specifically focused, in part because the district lines changed significantly in the court - drawn congressional map used for the fist time in the 2012 elections.

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.

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• Election maps showing current council districts, county legislative districts, senate, assembly, and congressional districts.

Leaders of the New York League of Women Voters have seen proposals for redrawing the district maps for the New York State Legislature in this fall's elections and they don't like them.

Web designer Jonathan Crocket is working with the group to create the County Committee Sunlight Project, which allows people to search for their election district, and find out where committee vacancies are located through a color - coded, interactive map.

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.»

The map also created 7 potential incumbent versus incumbent matchups in the State Senate elections as well as seven districts without incumbents.

Despite revisions to the court - drawn plan, Brown argued that the map still inappropriately divided counties and, due to staggered Senate elections, would leave at least one district without representation until 2014.

Three of the 13 districts for the 2012 elections were more than three - quarters Democrat, much more packed than in any of the team's randomly drawn maps, even for their bluest - of - blue Democratic districts.