Sentences with phrase «gerrymandering when»
The entire process whiffs of gerrymandering when calculations by the House of Commons library found that at the 2017 general election the Tories got one seat for every 43,018 votes nationally compared with Labour's 49,152 per MP or Liberal Democrats» 197,665 and Green's 525,665.
https://www.totalpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
The odds that someone trying to gerrymander multi-member districts will screw it up and end up hurting (or at least not helping) the party that they are trying to favor when they draw district lines is much greater.
«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.»
Later, when Avella charged that Senate Republicans «have done something absolutely disgraceful» in gerrymandering district lines to protect their majority, Nozzolio fired back.
Gerrymandering is when a partisan committee moves around the borders of voting districts to favor their own party, squeezing the maximum amount of electoral votes possible out of a certain area of land.
«When it comes to the Senate lines, the people of Woodhaven are being treated as pawns in Albany's gerrymandering games,» said Alexander Blenkinsopp, spokesman for the association.
«I said during the campaign, when I was first running, that we have to stop the gerrymandering and that I support an independent commission so we have a non-partisan redistricting plan.
And going back to pre-Sandy days, the Democrats were none too thrilled that Cuomo declined to intercede when the Senate and Assembly failed to agree on a redistricting plan for the congressional lines, kicking the matter to the courts and resulting in a far less gerrymandered outcome than a politically - controlled process would likely have produced.
A situation in which a gentleman who was neither a contestant or running - mate in the substantive election on November 22 was permitted by INEC, the APC and the federal government, represented by the Attorney General of the Federation to usurp the candidacy of the deceased Alhaji Abubakar Audu when a running - mate was alive and willing to sustain the ticket was pure gerrymandering by certain interests to produce a desired outcome.
Laws are typically state - wide, affecting all groups at once, so when a party sues the state, the party almost always has something to recover from the investment; even if just a few more gerrymandered statehouse slots or mayors.
When the lines for state Senate and state Assembly seats were unveiled last week, the drawn districts were widely criticized across the borough and viewed as breaking up communities and gerrymandering the districts to suit elected officials.
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.
Mahoney says the governor scored with an ethics agreement in 2011, but struck out this year when it came to redistricting, agreeing to a plan that permitted gerrymandered districts.
True reform in the United States will be found when the ballot access laws are changed to open the ballots to all parties, and gerrymandering is outlawed so entrenched politicians can be voted out of office.
This is particularly likely to occur when the minority party has significant obstruction power — unable to enact a partisan gerrymander, the legislature instead agrees on ensuring their own mutual reelection.
Meanwhile, the memory of the 2004 gerrymander is still fresh in our minds, when Tom DeLay and his cronies redrew district lines that flipped the Texas congressional delegation from 17 - 15 Democratic to 21 - 11 Republican.
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.»
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.
«When it comes to the Senate lines, the people of Woodhaven are being treated as pawns in Albany's gerrymandering games.»
Assemblyman Jack McEneny has said minor changes are expected to the LATFOR plans, despite the fact that they have been widely condemned, particularly when it comes to the Senate's proposal, as hyper - partisan and unfairly gerrymandered.
Political clubs are different and letter writer Ricky Martinez acknowledges this when he says, «Yes, with the demise of the Decatur Democratic Club and the past two gerrymanders of the election districts, your entire circulation area has lost some of its political effectiveness.»
When the State Senate and Assembly deadlocked over how to gerrymander the districts, he allowed a court to draw the Congressional lines for New York without offering any input.
One of the strange consequences of the gerrymandering of state senate districts was that this Westchester town was thrown together with Clarkstown, Orangetown, and Ramapo in Carlucci's senate district, giving him a foothold across the river that could come in handy for a rumored future run for Congress when Rep. Nita Lowey retires).
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.»
The governor touted the legislature's agreement to pass a constitutional amendment that might curb gerrymandering, though many observers consider it deeply problematic, and then added, «Most of the critics on redistricting, when you look at it, they tend to be either self - interested for their own politics or hypocritical, frankly.»
One reason is that there has never been a clear and reliable metric to determine when this type of gerrymandering crosses the line from acceptable politicking to a violation of the US Constitution.
The courts intervene when gerrymandering is driven by race.
But the courts have been much less keen to weigh in on partisan gerrymandering — when one political party is favoured over another.
In December 2016, a Wisconsin court considered a statistical analysis when ruling against partisan gerrymandering.
The project began when geographer Clio Andris, a former Santa Fe Institute postdoctoral fellow now at Pennsylvania State University, wondered whether the interwoven House districts created by gerrymandering might actually foster cooperation.
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.