Sentences with word «gerrymandering»

Your veto threat and our advocacy have helped focus public discussion on the need to end once and for all the self - interested, legislative - driven process of partisan gerrymandering in New York State, and achieve our shared goal of replacing it with an impartial process that creates fairer lines and more representative districts.

Blair Horner of NYPIRG, Susan Lerner of Common Cause, and Jesse Laymon of Effective New York present mock awards for most gerrymandered districts in the NYS legislature

«This amendment which is on the ballot would, for the first time memorialize partisan gerrymandering in our constitution.»

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 →

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

It amazes me how corrupt the Repub Senate is... from reliance on gerrymandered districts, adding new districts, buying off corrupt / power hungry Democratic Senators to switch parties (both the Pedro coup and now Jeff Klein), and their corrupt fronting for the NYC Charter school and real estate industries they have used every trick in the book to stay in power.

In the court's majority opinion, Kagan described the two - part analysis utilized by the high court when plaintiffs allege racial gerrymandering as follows: «First, the plaintiff must prove that «race was the predominant factor motivating the legislature's decision to place a significant number of voters within or without a particular district.»

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.

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.

The Times, in a strongly worded editorial, chastised Cuomo not only for failing to follow through on his vow to veto gerrymandered legislative districts but for engaging in tactics that represent a step backwards in Albany's already undemocratic culture.

Instead, he's floating a flim - flam amendment that couldn't take effect until 2014 — and would hamstring voters with gerrymandered districts for a decade.

Malloy urged Democratic voters to help win back some seats before redistricting occurs in 2020 in order to stop further Republican gerrymandering of Congressional districts.

I have heard a lot of outcry about gerrymandering voting districts.

North Carolina is one of the most gerrymandered states in the nation.

In December, the court announced it would hear arguments in another partisan gerrymandering case, Benisek v. Lamone, from Maryland.

This type of unintentional gerrymandering does take place on a massive scale on the state level, as well.

If we can not have true democratic races between the parties because of political gerrymandering in the redistricting process, then real competition within the parties through the primary process is the next best thing.

If congressmen coming from gerrymandered districts with campaigns financed by fossil fuel interests put climate scientists out of work, perhaps those scientists will find lucrative positions where more resources will be made readily available.

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

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.

So gerrymandering which largely works by dividing up the opposing voters and grouping theirs to have just enough to win or grouping most of the opposing voters into a few districts so they get to keep the rest of the seats, fails.

EDIT: Just to sharpen my second point, I think this system would nullify attempts at gerrymandering.

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

Supporters of a November ballot amendment on redistricting say the amendment will help prevent rampant partisan gerrymandering when the next district lines are drawn in the New York Senate and Assembly.

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.

She says she hopes the initial maps have not been drawn in a blatantly partisan manner so that Governor Cuomo and the legislature could settle on a slightly less gerrymandered version in the coming weeks, then call it reform.

«The redistricting reform passed today in Ohio makes it much harder for politicians to rig elections through gerrymandering and gives me hope that we can restore fairness to our elections in states around the country.

If the Republicans were to push the end of gerrymandering into 2020, what is to stop them from pushing it further in 2019?

And do Democratic victories mean that our democracy is not in tatters, is not so gerrymandered, is not so polluted by money, etc.?

While the talking heads make a few interesting insights, the best parts of the film are the on - location examples of how gerrymandering works.

From Liz's link to the NYT: [Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, who sponsored the legislation in the Assembly, said, «The practice of inmate - based gerrymandering fundamentally undermines the principal of one person, one vote, by reallocating political power to a handful of upstate, rural communities.»]

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

The efficiency gap, as explained in Stephanopoulos and McGhee (2015), measures Gerrymandering using the notion of wasted votes (see a quick overview at How the Efficiency Gap Works (PDF)-RRB-.

Former Labour minister Alan Johnson - a former union leader - contends that the bill is «spiteful» and designed to «gerrymander votes in favour of the employer and against the employee».

We want to eliminate gerrymandering which has produced twisted, contorted districts tailor - made for incumbents.

Thank you for your kind messages and all of the support and I hope you'll join me in my battle against gerrymandering with the same enthusiasm,» he added.

With gerrymandered boundaries, AV will be of little benefit.

Even Democratic legislators that are focused on government reform, such as Assemblymember Robert Carroll, newly elected from Brooklyn, and Manhattan Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, have said they are concerned with the delegate selection process, which allows the representatives to be determined based on heavily gerrymandered Senate districts.

Echoing Justice Kennedy's concurrence in Vieth, the plaintiffs argue that, in addition to the Equal Protection Clause, partisan gerrymanders also implicate the First Amendment right to freedom of association.

Three psychology researchers have taken it upon themselves to solve the nationwide problem of partisan gerrymandering using a computer algorithm.

The court rulings to protect voting rights have incensed state legislators, who harshly criticized the federal courts and dragged their feet in redrawing gerrymandered election districts.

The term gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing electoral district lines to favor one political party, individual, or constituency over another.

If we fail to flip the State Senate in 2018, redistricting in 2020 could see the state further gerrymandered, ensuring even more districts are won by anti-reproductive health candidates at both state and federal levels.

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.

Dilan still has doubts on prison gerrymandering Legislative Gazette Former Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benjamin, who supported a bill that would require inmates to be counted at their previous address, said the 2010 law... (Read more)

Other possible reasons why public school segregation increased as neighborhoods became more integrated include gerrymandering of public school attendance zones by race or class and other decisions made by local public school boards.