Sentences with phrase «how gerrymandering»

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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-.

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.

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

I would also like to know how these super districts would be free of gerrymandering.

Edit: Since this question has created some discussion as to what is Gerrymandering, what is its impact and how can it influence elections, let me suggest something that brings you from zero knowledge to «pretty much aware of the situation»: The redistricting game.

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.

I was watching a Vox video on gerrymandering in Pennsylvania, and thought how lucky I am that gerrymandering is not generally considered to be much of a problem here in Australia.

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.

The 2012 election provides a number of examples as to how partisan gerrymandering can adversely affect the descriptive function of states» congressional delegations.

Is there any good analysis about how many seats were lost because of gerrymandering that happened after 2008?

If we took a poll of how voters self - identify and tried to artificially create a result that would always match that, that would be a form of gerrymandering, itself.

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.

Gerrymandering aside, it's how our founding fathers set it up.

That's why Duchin is organizing a week - long summer camp to help mathematicians learn the underlying subtleties of the various gerrymandering models and how to apply and explain them.

There have been many similar «civic education» video games out there, like the UN video game to teach kids about world hunger and, my personal favorite, a video game to teach kids how to gerrymander voting districts to get political support.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.

Franita Tolson published an op - ed about how the Supreme Court deals with cases involving allegations of partisan gerrymandering.