Sentences with phrase «gerrymandered district maps»

One answer to Quinn's question: Progressives believe (with some cause) that Cuomo has abetted GOP control of the State Senate by coddling the turncoat Democrats of the IDC and approving gerrymandered district maps that aid upstate Republicans — and (with indisputable cause) that Albany is a bastion of corruption where well - heeled interests (most conspicuously, New York City developers) can purchase favors at bargain prices.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Despite all the speculation on whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo will stick to his pledge to veto LATFOR's gerrymandered and politically influenced district lines, there's a growing possibility that he'll never get the chance because the maps — as they currently stand — might not make it out of the Legislature at all.

Council district gerrymandering doesn't hurt so much when you're represented well, but our communities could be facing years of being overlooked and underserved if our next legislator's focus leans toward another spot on the map.

On September 23, 2011, opponents of the newly approved congressional district map filed suit in the Missouri 19th Judicial Circuit Court, alleging «partisan gerrymandering and deviations from state constitutional compactness requirements.»

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.

These maps tell a story; 19th CD districts are examples of classic gerrymandering.

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 judges» districts, he found, were less gerrymandered than in 75 % of the computer - generated models — a sign of a well - drawn, representative map.

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.

«Mathematical theorem finds gerrymandering in Pennsylvania congressional district maps: Theorem detects nonrandomness of a sample from a Markov chain.»

On remand, a three - judge panel in Alabama ruled 12 legislative districts in the state's 2011 legislative map are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.