Sentences with phrase «gerrymandered maps»

These partisan - drawn gerrymandered maps demonstrate precisely why we have to forever change this process.

Today's NY Times editorial argues, that Congress should fix a visa program encouraging investment in high - unemployment areas that is being exploited in New York by gerrymandered maps that make wealthy areas look poorer.

Today's NY Times editorial argues, that Congress should fix a visa program encouraging investment in high - unemployment areas that is being exploited in New York by gerrymandered maps that... Continue reading →

«I would explect the governor would veto gerrymandered maps no matter who they're drawn by.

«In any event, Senate Democrats remain confident that even if the existing gerrymandered maps are ultimately upheld, Democrats will gain seats and retake the majority in the State Senate this November.»

Next, Gov. Andrew Cuomo — a fellow Democrat — declined to keep his pledge to veto any redistricting plan drawn up in the traditional (read: politically controlled) manner, signing the gerrymandered maps proposed by the GOP into law.

This disparity is tied to the Democrats» inefficient distribution of their votes — primarily resulting from the Democratic vote being naturally more concentrated, and in some cases (such as in North Carolina, where Democrats won four of 13 seats while winning the statewide popular vote in House races) due to gerrymandered maps.

«His decision now — whether to honor his pledge and veto the gerrymandered map or whether to allow the Legislature to get away with a self - serving map — is a key test of his leadership,» Koch said.

«The first thing that helps you get to a gerrymandered map is drawing around the residence of the incumbent,» said Common Cause Executive Director Susan Lerner.

Five of the Majority Caucus members who voted against downsizing now support the gerrymandered map that was vetoed by the County Executive.

His decision now — whether to honor his pledge and veto the gerrymandered map or whether to allow the legislature to get away with a self - serving map — is a key test of his leadership.

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@Chad - the fact that this map wasn't considered by the court to be «gerrymandering» doesn't invalidate this asnwer.

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.

The Democrats, who continue to insist they have a shot at winning back the majority this fall despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approval of a gerrymandered redistricting map that benefits the GOP, remain more than $ 1 million in debt from the 2010 elections in which they lost control of the chamber.

He signed off on the gerrymandered LATFOR Senate and Assembly maps in a deal that also included Tier VI, expansion of non-Indian gambling (another constitutional amendment), expansion of the statewide DNA database, and the teacher performance evaluation system.

«The new legislative maps are an abomination and are gerrymandered to break up our communities that have simply asked to remain united.»

Stephanopoulos and McGhee computed efficiency gaps for four decades of congressional and state House races starting in 1972, finding that the pro-Republican maps enacted after the 2010 Census resulted in «the most extreme gerrymanders in modern history.»

Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) submitted a map to the Democratic - controlled Legislature, which passed it even with unanimous Republican dissent over concerns over racial gerrymandering.

Lawmakers heard numerous accusations that the new lines were «gerrymandered» and say the proposed maps are not set in stone.

«The maps are almost identical to the first set, which had been deemed the most gerrymandered in the history of the state,» he said.

This state constitutional amendment will ban partisan gerrymandering by outlawing legislative maps drawn for political advantage.»

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.

This Green Paper was Cheryl Gillan's attempt at rigging Wales» electoral map in the same way that her Cabinet colleagues were trying to gerrymander the results of the next general election.

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.

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's rationalized his retreat in increments, from his warning that a court - run redrawing of the lines would result in «chaos,» to the subjective conditions he laid out for an acceptable gerrymander, to his uncharacteristic claim of powerlessness, to his criticism of an independent judge's congressional map, to his lightly supported characterization of the latest gerrymandered legislative draft - map as «progress» from the previous gerrymandered version.

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.

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.»

A federal judge has ruled North Carolina must redraw gerrymandered legislative maps drawn by Republicans.

Cuomo signed off on a Republican - gerrymandered redistricting map of the State Senate that will greatly help the Republicans in their efforts to hold on to a narrow majority in the chamber.

Using logic reminiscent of Mario Cuomo, a reform advocate who nevertheless signed into law gerrymandered lines on the premise that they were preferable to lines drawn by the courts, Benjamin laments that the judge is «unelected» and therefore accountable for mistakes in the map he or she draws.

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.

And Andrew Cuomo, after saying for two years that he wouldn't sign off on gerrymandered legislative maps, signed off on them anyway.

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.

Despite New York's Democratic voter enrollment edge, there were a number of contested congressional contests both this year and in 2012 — thanks to the slightly less gerrymandered redistricting map created by a court and not state lawmakers.

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

No constitutional amendment is necessary for whomever draws them to produce maps that aren't hopelessly gerrymandered.

Reaction to the state and congressional maps was drastically different, with independent groups and elected officials blasting the state lines as gerrymandered to keep Senate Republicans in power, while praising the congressional lines drawn by a court - appointed judge as fairly drawn.

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.»

Mr. Cuomo used his power over the decennial redistricting process to win some victories in March: He was able to get lawmakers, who wanted him to sign the gerrymandered legislative maps they had drawn, to agree to curb pension benefits for future public workers, to create a more rigorous system for evaluating schoolteachers, and to take the first step toward legalizing a significant expansion of casino gambling.

«This was the year New York State lawmakers were going to stop protecting incumbents by gerrymandering political maps to improve their re-election chances,» Thomas Kaplan wrote the other day in The New York Times.

Republicans in North Carolina's General Assembly have repeatedly lost in the courts over their gerrymandering of legislative maps, so now they are trying to rig the state court's.

Maps that the New York Public Interest Research Group called the most gerrymandered in recent history.

But I suppose that is a rather insignificant observation when you look at what New York Public Interest Group's Bill Mahoney has to say about the proposed maps as a whole.He says, the Senate's maps are, «clearly the most gerrymandered lines in recent New York History.»

«What is clear is these maps are gerrymandered.

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.»

WASHINGTON — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week struck down the state's congressional map as a partisan gerrymander in violation of the Pennsylvania Constitution.

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