Sentences with phrase «of drawing district lines»

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has proposed that a commission of non-legislators should take over the once - a-decade process of drawing district lines for the state Legislature and Congress, his aide said Monday.

Passing a nonpartisan redistricting bill of the sort being championed by Koch would be «one of the best things to happen to Albany since the building of the Erie Canal,» said Bloomberg, who said the current system of drawing district lines «promotes ideological extremism and reduces voter choice.»

Not exact matches

Only in our time do we draw electoral district lines so that black representatives may be assured of election without the inconvenience of having to solicit white votes.

The amount of freedom in drawing district lines is almost unlimited now.

Anyway, with this year's post-Census line - drawing just about done (about whose implications you were warned in 2009), Google's put together a handy map of new Congressional districts across the country:

Gillibrand herself has three potential Republican challengers, who will face off in the June 26 primary: Attorney Wendy Long, who has the Conservative Party line; Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos and Rep. Bob Turner, who was drawn by Mann out of his NY - 9 district.

Apparently, it's possible that the Legislature could decide to delay county committee and district leader races this year if the redistricting lines aren't finalized in time for the state Board of Elections to draw up the Election Districts.

The NAACP and many other other advocacy organizations like the Asian American Legal Defense continually push for district lines to be drawn to maximize the electability of a candidate from a select ethnic background, but this is an inherently problematic endeavor.

Mike Scala is running for Congress in NY - 6, and he wants the new district lines drawn to be reflective of ethnic populations.

Another question focused on the upcoming redistricting of legislative district lines and who should help draw them.

The Senate and Assembly must complete newly drawn district lines in the first few weeks of the year, and Cuomo has threatened to veto new lines that are not drawn in a non partisan manner by an independent commission.

«That move led by former Mayor Ed Koch to force candidates to pledge support for drawing of political district lines by an independent group — not by the state Legislature — wins solid support,» Carroll continued.

Political battlegrounds are drawn along the lines of wards, districts and, in parliamentary traditions, ridings.

Joe Crowley (who has a lot on the line in the NY - 9 race, because he would benefit enormously if the district is drawn out of existence in 2012), to Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to Rep. Kathy Hochul have emailed / campaigned for Weprin.

The state legislature draws state legislative district lines with the assistance of an advisory commission.

Voters like the idea (69 - 20) of an independent redistricting commission of the sort being pushed by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and his NY Uprising PAC and believe (71 - 14) taking the power of drawing legislative and congressional district lines would make for more competitive elections in the future.

District lines drawn after the census this year will help shape the outcome of future legislative and Congressional races.

MAYVILLE - A non-partisan group of county residents charged with drawing new district lines for the Chautauqua County Legislature have finalized and approved a plan to be considered by lawmakers.

«Senators truly committed to reform should support both an independent redistricting process and new district lines,» he said, adding that the non-competitive elections created by partisan line - drawing are «the main source of Albany's dysfunction.»

Suffolk Conservatives, whose ballot line can draw as much as 12 to 13 percent of the vote on Election Day, have endorsed Suffolk Police Commissioner Timothy Sini for district attorney this fall, county party chairman Frank Tinari said late Sunday.

King's father, David King, was lead attorney for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging the Senate violated the state's Fair District's Amendment in the drawing of state Senate and congressional districDistrict's Amendment in the drawing of state Senate and congressional districtdistrict lines.

The phrase racial gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing electoral district lines to dilute the voting power of racial minority groups.

The state legislature argued that the use of the word «legislature» in this context is literal; therefore, only a state legislature may draw congressional district lines.

If approved by voters those propositions will: 1) Create a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 mandates that electoral district lines can not be drawn in such a manner as to «improperly dilute minorities» voting power.»

The term gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing electoral district lines to favor one political party, individual, or constituency over another.

According to a source familiar with the results of these polls, Hanna's numbers improved in the Binghamton and Utica portions of the district — two areas on which his TV ad buys have specifically focused, in part because the district lines changed significantly in the court - drawn congressional map used for the fist time in the 2012 elections.

«The only way a 25 percent party who received a quarter of a million few votes than the opposition can stay in power is through the selective and hyper - partisan drawing of district lines,» Shafran said.

«The general public, and ultimately both Republicans and Democrats, will benefit from a process that puts fairness and independence above partisan concerns in the drawing of district lines.»

NYPIRG's Blair Horner said the current process rigs elections to benefit incumbents and political parties The last time the lines were drawn, only 25 district populations were close in terms of enrollment of Democrats and Republicans, he said.

But suppose the people with the authority to draw district lines prefer party A. Even if they are obligated to make every district have the same number of voters, they could, at the most extreme, draw 1 district that has 20,000 B's and 9 districts each with 8,889 B's and 11,111 A's.

New York, despite the fact that it is dominated by Democrats, had a handful of competitive congressional races in 2012, thanks to the fact that a judge — not the state Legislature — drew the district lines.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan drew a line in the sand for upcoming state budget negotiations: There will be no deal without paying school districts back for years of previous cuts.

The redistricting order, which came after the State Assembly and Senate gave up trying to draw new Congressional lines, reduced the number of districts in New York to 27 from 29, as was required as a result of the 2010 census.

Instead, we drew new district lines based on «communities of interest,» which are recognized under the Voting Rights Act and extend beyond race and ethnicity.

Michael Benjamin has a detailed critique of the congressional lines drawn by a federal judge, contending, for example, that Howard Beach and Bed - Stuy shouldn't be in the same district.

Elected officials and political insiders pay close attention to this arcane process of map - drawing, because they understand well that new district lines could result in major shifts of political power.

In 2002 the new district lines were drawn with a Democratic advantage of 41,100 voters, which has stayed at 41k through April 2010.

Whether the redistricting gurus of Albany are looking at the state Senate, the Assembly, or Congress, the message should be the same: Oneida County deserves to be treated with respect and kept whole in the final drawing of district lines.

And the GOP was able to draw new Senate district lines that favor Republicans, including the creation of a 63rd Senate seat, which attempts to capture Republican voter pockets in the Mohawk and Hudson Valleys.

He engineered the drawing of new lines around Burling's upstate district in 2012, said well - placed sources on both sides of the aisle in Albany.

Under the new lines of the district, drawn by a federal judge, voters would have gone about by a pretty similar margin for Obama in the 2008 election.

If they fail to win back control of the state senate, they will have no power in how district lines are drawn following the 2010 Census.

There are three ballot propositions on the November ballot: 1) Creation of a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

Meanwhile, lawyers for the legislative leaders filed papers asking a federal three - judge panel to hold off on appointing a special master to draw the state and congressional district lines instead of the Legislature.

Democratic Sen. Eric Coleman, the judiciary committee co-chairman and chief proponent of the bill, said the measure would lead to «a much more accurate and much more fair system» in drawing the district lines.

Twenty - two states expressly require that district lines be drawn to recognize communities of interest, such as social, cultural, ethnic, economic and racial similarities.

That's because newly drawn lines for the congressional district now stretch into the Bronx, and Hispanics are now a majority of the entire district.

One of the elected officials who appears on Espaillat's petitions as a member of his Committee to Fill Vacancies is Assemblyman Nelson Castro of the Bronx, whose district slightly overlaps with the newly drawn lines of the Rangel district.

The last time lines were drawn, a decade ago, they were designed to protect Republicans (and Republican - friendly Democrats like Carl Kruger, whose odd - shaped district was the result of a deal he struck with former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno).