Sentences with phrase «gerrymandering which»

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.

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.

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[6] The clearest example of gerrymandering was the dissolution of the Joo Chiat single ward, which was fiercely contested in the 2011 election by the WP.

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

One of the simplest means of dealing with this even retains the electoral college: have the EC allocate its votes for each state proportionately to the vote, regardless of electoral district (which also renders gerrymandering almost irrelevant, since the state is considered as a whole).

That parties in the US get less seats than percentage of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.

The point of gerrymandering is to achieve a massed result different from the massed popular vote, which is the same criticism leveled at the electoral collage.

It will be interesting to see how the Democrats break up Hinchey's district, which was gerrymandered to be Democrat - dominated and is surrounded by districts held by Republicans.

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.

As things stand Labour, which campaigned at the election on holding a referendum on AV, is not going to support the bill because of what it sees as gerrymandering.

First, there is the numerical victory of the 2010 parliamentary elections, in which — despite gerrymandering and other governmental shenanigans — the opposition won 48 % of the vote.

Phillips is from the Binghamton area; Hinchey hails from Ulster County, which just illustrates how ridiculously large (not to mention gerrymandered) the 22nd CD is.

Hinchey's district, which stretches from the Hudson Valley through the Southern Tier to Ithaca, was gerrymandered specifically to protect a Democrat.

The Democrats, who continue to insist they have a shot at winning back the majority this fall despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approval of a gerrymandered redistricting map that benefits the GOP, remain more than $ 1 million in debt from the 2010 elections in which they lost control of the chamber.

It's designed to detect cases in which one party may have won, widened or retained its grip on power through political gerrymandering.

With Republicans controlling both state chambers, the congressional delegation was expected to remain at six Republicans and one Democrat, which was not lost on critics, who alleged racial discrimination and political gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering, which can be traced back to at least 1788, has resulted in 69 of 99 state legislatures and both houses in 35 states to be controlled by Republicans in a country in which both parties are pretty evenly represented, with Democrats slightly ahead.

Cuomo, however, said the process commonly referred to as gerrymandering, which involves drawing a jigsaw puzzle of lines in order to keep incumbent parties in power, needs to end.

The product is the «hyper - partisan,» in his words, lines which LATFOR, the state's legislative redistricting arm, came out with, that gerrymander the districts in such a way as to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate and the Democratic majority in the Assembly.

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.

Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) submitted a map to the Democratic - controlled Legislature, which passed it even with unanimous Republican dissent over concerns over racial gerrymandering.

Other finalists met privately with Paterson in December and January, including Gillibrand, then a sophomore member from the old 20th District, which followed the Hudson Valley from Poughkeepsie to Lake Placid but was gerrymandered around Democrat - rich areas in like Albany and Troy.

«The maps are almost identical to the first set, which had been deemed the most gerrymandered in the history of the state,» he said.

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.

town versus country) or by artificial «fixing» of divisions (such as gerrymandering, in which the boundaries of electoral districts are abused by the party in power, or by varying the number of electors in different districts).

[78] In July 2005, a new law for electoral reforms was approved which prevented electoral gerrymandering by cutting the number of electoral districts from 25 to 5.

One state in which gerrymandering has arguably had an adverse effect on electoral competition is California.

In response to this obvious gerrymandering, a 2010 referendum in California gave the power to redraw congressional district lines to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which had been created to draw California State Senate and Assembly districts by another referendum in 2008.

Sure, if he follows through on his promise to veto their gerrymander, the New York Times editorial board will cheer, but then, for as long as he remains in this particular office, Cuomo will have to live with either a vengeful Republican Senate majority or a dysfunctional Democratic one, which may turn out to be even worse for him.

In Cooper v. Harris, decided on May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, finding that two of North Carolina's congressional districts, the boundaries of which had been set following the 2010 United States Census, had been subject to an illegal racial gerrymander in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Some people argue that this might actually be a bigger problem than the intentional gerrymandering - one example is white flight, which in effect resulted in de-facto gerrymandering between downtowns and suburbs, even without redrawing districts.

Another example of (intentional) state - level gerrymandering is the «Free State Project», which aims to recruit 20,000 libertarian volunteers to move to a low - population state (they selected New Hampshire) in order to «take over» that state.

Elections are run at the state level, so a state - gerrymandered election could alter that balance of power in the state legislature, which would effect things like voter - suppression measures, enactment and enforcement of campaign finance regulations, and the ability of elections to be monitored and for rules to be enforced by non-partisan (or partisan) entities.

In which partisan gerrymandering and other perks of office allow incumbents to choose their voters, not the other way around.

Further, of 204 elected delegates, 189 would be chosen from New York's 63 state Senate districts, three from each, which Democrats note are heavily gerrymandered in favor of Republican interests.

On June 28, 2006, the Supreme Court upheld the statewide redistricting as constitutional, with the exception of Texas» 23rd congressional district, which it held was racially gerrymandered in violation of Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, apparently to try to protect a Hispanic Republican representative.

As New York prepares for the once - a-decade redistricting process based on census data, Gov. Cuomo has proposed that the electoral map be redrawn by an independent commission as opposed to the legislature, which has created some highly - gerrymandered districts in the past.

Ratigan, who lives in Lake Placid, attributed this to gerrymandering, which has emerged as a central issue in his emerging campaign.

Gerrymandering: at the moment, the system is biased towards Labour; the other changes as I understand them, which are not subject to the referendum and therefore irrelevant to this debate, will reduce (but not eliminate) this bias.

Cuomo also signed that bill after it passed, which stipulates that an independent commission will be created after the next census in order to take power of redistricting out of the hands of the Legislature in an effort to circumvent gerrymandering.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

In a move reminiscent of the one that redistricted Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries out of the Brooklyn district in which he lived back in 2002 — landing him a star turn in that cult classic, «Gerrymandering» — the Republicans bumped Adams right out of the 20th SD, making a little dip right at the neck joint of this goose - like new distrtict.

Elsewhere, primary returns ranged from awful to almost average, showing 14 percent in the incredibly gerrymandered finger - shaped 101st Assembly District, where incumbent Claudia Tenney of Utica trounced Walden Mayor Brian Maher, to 9.8 percent in the new 51st Senate District race, in which veteran Jim Seward blasted challenger Jim Blake by a more than five - to - one margin.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, along with the League of Women Voters, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

So the argument wasn't about the implausibility of a partisan gerrymander - scheme, but about upstate versus downstate, which never gets old.

Holding the majority in the Senate by a slim 32 - 30 margin, the GOP drew the district lines which the Democrats says are egregiously gerrymandered to protect Republican senators.

While New York is deeply blue in aggregate — Hillary Clinton carried Trump's home state by more than 20 points — the 2012 round of redistricting saw House seats drawn by a federal court rather than subjected to normal partisan gerrymandering, which made several seats politically competitive.

Ohio is a gerrymandered swing state in which down - ballot offices play a role in the redistricting process.

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.

Schneiderman worked to pass tougher ethics and hate - crimes legislation; he led a successful push to ease the Rockefeller drug laws and end «prison gerrymandering,» which counted inmates as local residents upstate and weakened downstate Democratic districts.