Sentences with phrase «gerrymandered boundaries»

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Opposition leaders and human rights groups have accused the PAP of gerrymandering and demanded more transparency in the boundary changes of constituencies.

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

Geographical boundaries are subject to gerrymandering, allowing most investors to invest the minimum $ 500,000 instead of the higher level of $ 1 million.

Because one measure of political gerrymandering is the relative «compactness» of a districts, since complicated demographic juggling often yields boundary lines that drift all over the map.

Gerrymandering is all about drawing electoral boundaries such that the artifact of most electoral systems (that one citizen's vote doesn't translate directly into voting weight in parliament) can override the natural outcome of a vote.

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.

town versus country) or by artificial «fixing» of divisions (such as gerrymandering, in which the boundaries of electoral districts are abused by the party in power, or by varying the number of electors in different districts).

He also launched a sustained attack on the Tories, claiming that the Government is «gerrymandering the electoral system» by pursuing boundary reforms and reducing the number of parliamentary seats.

Re-drawing constituency boundaries is a long contentious process and is susceptible to efforts to gerrymander the outcome (to seek unfair advantage from fixing precisely where the boundaries are replaced).

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 %.

Gerrymandering is most common in countries where elected politicians are responsible for defining constituency boundaries.

Some countries, such as Australia, Canada, and the UK, authorize non-partisan organizations to set constituency boundaries in an attempt to prevent gerrymandering.

In Cooper v. Harris, decided on May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, finding that two of North Carolina's congressional districts, the boundaries of which had been set following the 2010 United States Census, had been subject to an illegal racial gerrymander in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Unless the new gerrymandered constituency boundaries have not yet been agreed.

Pros: The non-partisan Citizens Union supports the proposal, saying that while flawed, it will eliminate gerrymandering (drawing the boundaries of districts in a way that gives one party an unfair advantage).

The High Court Tuesday started hearing arguments in a case out of Wisconsin involving gerrymandering, the much - criticized practice of drawing up legislative boundaries to benefit one political party.

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating geographic boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.

And resisting moves towards slightly reducing the huge electoral bias (5 + %) towards Labour in the current boundaries isn't gerrymandering.

Tagged: Constituency Boundaries · Filibustering · Gerrymandering · House of Lords · Parliamentary Reform

One of the byproducts of the Senate GOP's plan to gerrymander the district of their most vulnerable member, Sen. Mark Grisanti, so it's entirely within the boundaries of Erie County is that the Conservative Party endorsement will be controlled by local officials and not state Chairman Mike Long.

There has been a fair bit of discussion about whether it's a good idea to reduce the HoC to 600, and whether the new boundaries constitute gerrymandering in favour of the Conservatives.

Threading boundaries between and through centres of population on the pretext of ensuring fairness is also a great way to cheat for your own benefit — a practice known as gerrymandering, after a 19th - century governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, who created an electoral division whose shape reminded a local newspaper editor of a salamander.

Gerrymandering — the drawing of electoral boundaries to benefit one party or group — is currently a hot political topic in the US, where the Supreme Court is considering a landmark case on the practice.

Instead, he says, leaders in Charlotte should address «racially gerrymandered» school boundaries in the system.

The Court ruled that school district lines could not be crossed to desegregate schools absent proof that states had essentially gerrymandered school district boundaries — which was hard to show because, in most places, there was no need alter district boundaries.

This sort of gerrymandering can get overly complex; it's better to stay within more clearly defined boundaries.

The re-delineated boundaries create an imbalance in constituencies, prompting allegations of mal - apportionment and gerrymandering.