Sentences with phrase «measures gerrymandering»

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-.

Political scientist Nicholas Stephanopoulos at the University of Chicago, Illinois, takes a much simpler approach to measuring gerrymandering.

Not exact matches

Because one measure of political gerrymandering is the relative «compactness» of a districts, since complicated demographic juggling often yields boundary lines that drift all over the map.

A It is the only one and because you would like to make a misleading case for a gerrymandering measure designed to retain power for possible the most hatred administration of my life time.

Mr. Larson is an advocate for campaign finance reform on the federal level, as well as tax reform, limits on congressional gerrymandering, increased Connecticut and U.S. manufacturing and other useful measures.

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.

«[The measure] takes a little bit of the gas out of the partisan gerrymandering process.»

Partisan gerrymandering is still legal federally and was allowed by the Ohio state constitution before this measure.

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.

FACT — the Tories have tagged on some gerrymandering for good measure becuase they just couldn't resist.

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.

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.

In 2011, his first year as Governor, he promised to veto gerrymandered districts; instead he settled for a half - measure that won't take effect until 2022.

With a student, Christy Graves, Mattingly got to work to combine these measures into a single, quantitative Gerrymandering Index for North Carolina.

In a separate analysis, Daniel McGlone, a geographic - information - system data analyst at the technology firm Azavea in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ranked each state's voting districts for compactness as a measure of gerrymandering, and found that Maryland had the most - gerrymandered districts.