Sentences with phrase «gerrymandering into»

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.

The 128th has been gerrymandered into a far - flung district that serves Syracuse's inner city, the university area, the Onondaga Nation, farm country in southern Onondaga County, as well as suburban Dewitt, Mattydale and Liverpool.

But an uproar ensued after reports surfaced that the house of an embattled Brooklyn lawmaker, state Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D - Brooklyn), had been gerrymandered into the district he was eyeing for 2013.

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In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

The mischief that flows from gerrymandering standards to create a preconceived version of diversity ramifies into consequences that even supporters of group preferences find dispiriting.

Also, this has to sting for the Senate Democrats, to whom Cuomo has not only refused to commit to supporting in their quest to win back the majority this fall, but arguably has actively screwed by working closely with the Senate Republicans and signing their gerrymandered redistricting plan into law.

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.

Republicans turned their new state legislative majorities into laboratories of right - wing extremism — attacking women's right to choose, busting unions, gerrymandering Republican congressional districts, and so much more.

And with Republican - controlled gerrymandering slashing our state into incoherent districts, our blue - leaning population is governed by red - leaning legislators.

Oh great... the Democrats will create «fair» districts in New York, while in Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio the Republicans will gerrymander their way into a permanent majority.

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.

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.

However, the division of territory into states itself has been alleged to be a consequence of gerrymandering, specifically in the late 19th Century the Republican party ensured that more states were created in territories friendly to their party, notable Dakota being admitted as two states and not as one.

Senate District 31 is a gem of gerrymandering, running from Marble Hill and Inwood at the upper reaches of Manhattan, through Washington Heights, down a swath of West Harlem and the Upper West Side, into Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea.

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.

I am unconvinced of the case for reforming the voting system, and not just because of the gerrymandering which Nick Clegg is trying to squeeze into what John Prescott calls the poisonous package.

The 39th State Senate District is another gerrymandered mess: starting in Rockland with the towns of Haverstraw and Stony Point, it sprawls 35 miles up the Hudson through all of eastern Orange County and continues into Ulster County, stopping just outside of New Paltz.

With a student, Christy Graves, Mattingly got to work to combine these measures into a single, quantitative Gerrymandering Index for North Carolina.

Marcia Coyle, the NLJ's chief Washington correspondent, sits down with Paul Smith, vice president for litigation and strategy at the Campaign Legal Center, to dig into the Supreme Court's two partisan gerrymandering cases this term.