Sentences with phrase «most gerrymandered»

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.»

Maps that the New York Public Interest Research Group called the most gerrymandered in recent history.

On Thursday, in his trademark, «What You Should Know» release, Bronx State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. blasted Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for creating «the most gerrymandered lines in recent New York history.»

Blair Horner of NYPIRG, Susan Lerner of Common Cause, and Jesse Laymon of Effective New York present mock awards for most gerrymandered districts in the NYS legislature

Stavisky and Avella's districts — the 16th and 11th, respectively — were already some of the most gerrymandered seats in the state, according to the two lawmakers.

Diaz Sr. wrapped up his missive by calling these lines a «disgrace» and «the most gerrymandered... in recent New York history.»

Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group said a statistical analysis shows the Senate's proposal is «clearly the most gerrymandered lines» in at least 30 years.

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

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Geographical boundaries are subject to gerrymandering, allowing most investors to invest the minimum $ 500,000 instead of the higher level of $ 1 million.

On the housing segregation by income and class, I would much prefer to use analogies with the Parisian suburbs, gated communities, and (perhaps over-dramatically) the social stratification of Dickensian London, or (most accurately) the electoral gerrymandering of Shirley Porter.

Gerrymandering is all about drawing electoral boundaries such that the artifact of most electoral systems (that one citizen's vote doesn't translate directly into voting weight in parliament) can override the natural outcome of a vote.

Stephanopoulos and McGhee computed efficiency gaps for four decades of congressional and state House races starting in 1972, finding that the pro-Republican maps enacted after the 2010 Census resulted in «the most extreme gerrymanders in modern history.»

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We adopted the boldest and most pro-voter platform in history — calling for expanding early voting and vote - by - mail, implementing universal automatic voter registration and same day voter registration, ending partisan and racial gerrymandering, and making Election Day a national holiday.

[citation needed] Most notably, gerrymandering is particularly effective in non-proportional systems that tend towards fewer parties, such as first past the post.

Thanks to the gerrymandering and de facto one - party rule that prevails throughout the bulk of the five boroughs, the real election day for most political contests in New York City is in September.

Gerrymandering is most common in countries where elected politicians are responsible for defining constituency boundaries.

One answer to Quinn's question: Progressives believe (with some cause) that Cuomo has abetted GOP control of the State Senate by coddling the turncoat Democrats of the IDC and approving gerrymandered district maps that aid upstate Republicans — and (with indisputable cause) that Albany is a bastion of corruption where well - heeled interests (most conspicuously, New York City developers) can purchase favors at bargain prices.

One of the byproducts of the Senate GOP's plan to gerrymander the district of their most vulnerable member, Sen. Mark Grisanti, so it's entirely within the boundaries of Erie County is that the Conservative Party endorsement will be controlled by local officials and not state Chairman Mike Long.

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.»

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.

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.

The Court ruled that school district lines could not be crossed to desegregate schools absent proof that states had essentially gerrymandered school district boundaries — which was hard to show because, in most places, there was no need alter district boundaries.

(Most of the other partisan gerrymandering claims have been based on the First Amendment's speech and association rights or the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.)