Sentences with phrase «end gerrymandered»

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.

«I'm particularly happy that he emphasizes the need to end gerrymandering and have the Legislature provide for an independent redistricting commission to do the job of reapportionment.»

The Reform Party has stood proudly against the establishment since 1996, and will not move away from opening the ballots, ending gerrymandering and limiting the influence of lobbyists on legislators.

Supporters say that it's the only way to make major changes to end gerrymandering, make it easier to vote, and generally fix government.

1) End gerrymandering — all congressional and state districts should follow the following rule: The ratio of the square of the circumference to the area of a district should not exceed 30.

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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.

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.

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

Koch is scheduled to testify today before the Senate Investigations Committee on a bill sponsored by Sen. Dave Valesky and Assemblyman Mike Gianaris that would end politically - controlled gerrymandering.

«This agreement will permanently reform the redistricting process in New York to once and for all end self - interested and partisan gerrymandering,» Cuomo said in March 2012.

We adopted the boldest and most pro-voter platform in history — calling for expanding early voting and vote - by - mail, implementing universal automatic voter registration and same day voter registration, ending partisan and racial gerrymandering, and making Election Day a national holiday.

I re-joined the Party because Corbyn believes fervently in democratising the Party structure, a democratisation process that will end the days of «corruption» and gerrymandering in Labour's heartlands in South Wales, the North and indeed Scotland.

«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.»

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

He insisted for months that he would veto lines that were gerrymandered, but in the end let stand the products of legislative electioneering in exchange for a slew of other agenda items and a constitutional amendment that somewhat wrested the redistricting pen from legislators» hands.

«This agreement will permanently reform the redistricting process in New York to once and for all end self - interested and partisan gerrymandering,» Cuomo said.

We also want to ending the practice of gerrymandering, and open ballots for third parties and independents.

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.

Never before has there been such a convergence of opportunity and support to end partisan gerrymandering.

Schneiderman worked to pass tougher ethics and hate - crimes legislation; he led a successful push to ease the Rockefeller drug laws and end «prison gerrymandering,» which counted inmates as local residents upstate and weakened downstate Democratic districts.

@ToddSullivan We need structural reform 2 end that given gerrymandered districts.