Sentences with phrase «less gerrymandered»

By comparison, every one of the 24,000 computer - drawn districts was less gerrymandered than either the 2012 or 2016 voting districts drawn by state legislators, which Mattingly, Graves and their colleagues reported in April 2017 (S. Bangia et al..

The judges» districts, he found, were less gerrymandered than in 75 % of the computer - generated models — a sign of a well - drawn, representative map.

Despite New York's Democratic voter enrollment edge, there were a number of contested congressional contests both this year and in 2012 — thanks to the slightly less gerrymandered redistricting map created by a court and not state lawmakers.

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.

Not exact matches

Surely, however, the demands of conscience should not be gerrymandered by the availability of people who very well may be less enlightened and conscientious.

The logic involved in these examples can apply generally, and the more seats there are per district, the less combined rounding error is created and so the less room there is for 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.

The more representatives you have in any given district, the smaller the rounding error, and hence, the less room there is for gerrymandering.

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.

In proportional - election systems, where political parties are represented in proportion to the total numbers of votes they receive, gerrymandering has little or less significance.

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

Hence, the less - gerrymandered than usual results that put several incumbent Democrats in peril.

Dick Dadey, with Citizen's Union says Cuomo should negotiate for less egregiously gerrymandered lines, and try to win agreement on a constitutional amendment to enact a more independent process, beginning in the next round of redistricting in 2022.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says if the constitutional amendment is accompanied by a law that also requires the lines to be drawn in a less partisan manner, then it would be at least an improvement from the present system of unlimited gerrymandering.

Supporters of the amendment contend the measure will remove the highly partisan process that has resulted in gerrymandered legislative districts and place it in the hands of a less self - interested body.

But the courts have been much less keen to weigh in on partisan gerrymandering — when one political party is favoured over another.

In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.