Sentences with phrase «gerrymandering using»

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

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-.

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The rich have also used their resources to «influence electoral, legislative and regulatory processes,» and the political process is now distorted by gerrymandering.

I may be missing the point, but I think gerrymandering works on districts of all sizes; teaching examples normally use districts with less than 20 voters.

Also, since the rounding errors in each district are smaller, the models a person engaged in gerrymandering needs to use to intentionally create rounding errors that are in favor of the preferred party must be both much more accurate and much more sophisticated to work properly.

Gerrymandering is used to redraw the districts for various political and logistical reasons.

Republicans, who have used gerrymander to retain Senate, are a full party to any bad laws passed in NY State during 69 of past seventy years!

On the housing segregation by income and class, I would much prefer to use analogies with the Parisian suburbs, gated communities, and (perhaps over-dramatically) the social stratification of Dickensian London, or (most accurately) the electoral gerrymandering of Shirley Porter.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the alternative (the approach currently used by Nebraska and Maine) would make for an even more lopsided electoral outcome due to gerrymandering.

He delivered a riveting talk on how the Republicans took over in 2010 by using computer modeling to gerrymander and steal elections.

During its breezy 77 minutes, Gerrymandering covers the history of the practice, how it is used and abused, and how it benefits both major political parties, Democrats and Republicans.

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.

It seems increasingly obvious that if Corbyn wins again, and provided the gerrymandering of the NEC has not be successful he should, that he is still not going to take decisive action against the coup plotters but will use the occasion to make more calls for party unity.

Consequently, the term «Tullymandering» was used to describe the phenomenon of a failed attempt at gerrymandering.

Progressives have long accused Cuomo of disingenuously propping up the Senate Republican majority so he can use it as a convenient excuse — a buffer against having both legislative houses controlled by left - of - center Democrats — pointing to maneuvers like his 2012 deal with Skelos on a redistricting plan that gerrymandered districts in favor of the GOP.

Because gerrymandering relies on the wasted - vote effect, the use of a different voting system with fewer wasted votes can help reduce gerrymandering.

In particular, the use of multi-member districts alongside voting systems establishing proportional representation such as single transferable voting can reduce wasted votes and gerrymandering.

-LRB--1) Norway uses PR, gerrymandering is a lot less relevant.

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.

It wouldn't be surprising if a political science professor used Senate District 60 to teach her students about gerrymandering.

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.

In the Wisconsin case Whitford v. Gill, federal judges used the efficiency gap to rule that the state's voting districts represented an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

It's when the Aggregate Index is used to judge manager performance in ITB funds, specifically managers that own substantial allocations to high yield or EM debt, that it is akin to gerrymandering.

Is there a meaning in the use of the Chinese name instead, to say that the Chinese, all 1.6 billion of them, are a big part of this problem, and was it just more satire on the gerrymandering path of Tao?

As Ilya Somin and David Bernstein point out at Volokh Conspiracy, Sotomayor also gerrymanders «race» in a way convenient to her purposes, using it to include Hispanic - Americans (who aren't a race) while breathing not one word about Asian - Americans (a more genuine racial classification whose situation of being both historically disadvantaged * and * discriminated against in university admissions cries out for recognition).