Sentences with phrase «gerrymandering does»

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

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.

Not exact matches

And with the Democratic enrollment edge in this district, even despite the Senate GOP's best gerrymandering efforts during the redistricting process, it certainly didn't help Amodeo to be splitting the left - of - center vote with Davis.

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

The voting rights act doesn't say that Gerrymandering is illegal but specifies that very specific gerrymandering in favor of minorities hGerrymandering is illegal but specifies that very specific gerrymandering in favor of minorities hgerrymandering in favor of minorities has to be done.

Why does gerrymandering exist, and how does it...

But he also said he won't back away from his refusal to accept gerrymandered districts, which doesn't leave all that much room for compromise.

Perhaps you don't remember, but in 1980 and 1990, Republicans complained about gerrymandering a lot.

Note that this kind of disparity doesn't actually demonstrate gerrymandering.

«It was one of the first bills I actually voted on when I finally got seated and I found it very ironic here I was in a gerrymandered district that had been drawn by for Republican Party and here I was voting for this and I stood up and said I don't support this because it enshrines our gerrymandered districts in the constitution and it's not an independent panel.»

I feel this way, while more severe of a change, really truly destroys gerrymandering and doesn't damage the system in any way.

Some of that is the new Republican gerrymander, but some of that is the loss of the old gerrymander which had been done by the Democrats.

Or did gerrymandering after the 2010 census give Republicans an edge in the House of Reps?

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.

Our Civil Rights Act bans specifically «racial» gerrymandering, but does not protect us from partisan gerrymandering.

Governor Cuomo has threatened in the past to veto new district lines that are gerrymandered, and not done by an independent commission, but Cuomo has remained silent on the subject in recent weeks.

It really does defeat the idea of open primaries, which are about as close as you are going to get towards fielding candidates that the public want to represent them if you are going to gerrymander the lists.

Later, when Avella charged that Senate Republicans «have done something absolutely disgraceful» in gerrymandering district lines to protect their majority, Nozzolio fired back.

In 1988, Tony helped state Senator, Serphin Maltese get elected and as payback Tony was gerrymandered to send a message, don't ever help out the GOP.

His ethics reforms were flawed; his redistricting deal allowed gerrymandering for the 2012 elections and doesn't make the situation better in the future.

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

«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.»

Like, if the Republicans continue to control the Senate thanks to a Cuomo - approved gerrymander plus five defections that the governor was perfectly OK with, and then over the course of the next couple of years their conference blocks campaign finance reform and drug reform and a hike of the minimum wage, doesn't it become somewhat more difficult for Cuomo to explain to Democratic primary voters why he didn't just do something about it?

Gerrymandering can also be done to help incumbents as a whole, effectively turning every district into a packed one and greatly reducing the potential for competitive elections.

In a two - party system, the Tweedledum Party and its supporters will want to gerrymander everything to give tweedledummers the advantage and the Tweedledee Party and its supporters will cry foul and do whatever they can to gerrymander to the tweedledees» advantage.

«In 2010 Republicans had control of the Senate, and in doing so, were able to gerrymander districts like the 60th District.

Given that Senators are elected by popular vote, does this mean that gerrymandering has no direct effect on the election of US Senators?

In contrast, a real area representative doing his / her job would have been screaming about the blatant gerrymandering and crying foul at that time way before the decision was made.

I suppose when the state borders were originally drawn Congress may have tried to do some gerrymandering, but any such effort would have only short - term value as people move and political opinions change.

This doesn't avoid gerrymandering.

«What we do need to do is a couple of things, first of all, change this gerrymandering in the City of Buffalo that specifically helps candidates get reelected.

«We don't have bi partisan gerrymandering memorialized in our constitution currently.»

That is why the TEAPublicans play all the games they do (gerrymandering districts, playing games with primary datres to hold down turnout, and taking the money of the downstate realty billionaires to buy upstate seats)!

Enrollment shifts don't much affect entrenched incumbents like Bonacic and Larkin — gerrymandering takes care of that — but there are indications Bonacic was feeling that blue wave lapping around his Gucci loafers.

Weprin (D) and Ulrich (R) will not run because the last thing they'll want to do is vacate a seat for a congressional seat that could very well be gerrymandered into oblivion.

Indeed, they have helped Labour to fleece them and to do its own gerrymandering: The Barnett Formula for propping up the Scottish Mezzogiorno survived 1979 - 1997 unaltered.

The governor also rescinded a campaign promise to veto any redistricting lines that were not non — partisan and done by an independent commission, and in mid-March agreed to new lines for the legislature that critics said were blatantly gerrymandered.

I think in the recent Blair biography it is noted that David Davis suspected Labour were attempting to gerrymander with mass immigration, but concluded it was actually done in the belief it was economically beneficial.

Equalising seats is not the same thing as gerrymandering them, provided it is done in the right way.

Even if his algorithms don't become the standard, Mattingly hopes that the judicial system will find a way to curb gerrymandering and restore his faith in the electoral system.

Gerrymandering certainly did not help, as virtually all House seats were noncompetitive.

Does the gerrymandering of the GISS data get Hansen the «smoking gun» he was looking for in Hansen et al, 1999 (section 11.1.3)?

They do need to be held to account by the people, not just the ones in their gerrymandered districts, especially if they are chairing committees.

This might be true, but it has nothing to do with Bush in particular, and it is absurd in the context of today's gerrymandered Republican House.

The Supreme Court started the current term in October with a docket that could have a lasting impact on politics and culture, including major cases on partisan gerrymandering and LGBT rights, but six months later, the justices haven't crossed off much on their to - do list, points out Todd Ruger for Roll Call.

Rather, as they observe overwhelming concentration of Democratic voters in central cities nationwide, they now demand that geographically compact districts be done away with and that gerrymandering to offset this concentration not only be permitted but be insisted upon by the judiciary.

Or what happens if districts can technically be drawn to satisfy the requirements, but must be obviously and severely gerrymandered to do so?

Surprised the Florida Legislature didn't try this: Just as happened in Florida a few years ago, the state supreme court in Pennsylvania overturned a partisan, gerrymandered congressional redistricting plan and, after the Republican - led state legislature and the Democratic governor couldn't agree on a new one, the court drew one up and ordered it to be put in place.