Sentences with phrase «on gerrymandered»

And Andrew Cuomo, after saying for two years that he wouldn't sign off on gerrymandered legislative maps, signed off on them anyway.

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.

He signed off on the gerrymandered LATFOR Senate and Assembly maps in a deal that also included Tier VI, expansion of non-Indian gambling (another constitutional amendment), expansion of the statewide DNA database, and the teacher performance evaluation system.

There are some other key implications of multi-member districts in addition to their impact on gerrymandering as well, however.

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.

-- Politico, «Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign,» by Edward - Isaac Dovere: «As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year's Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.

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

Is there a meaning in the use of the Chinese name instead, to say that the Chinese, all 1.6 billion of them, are a big part of this problem, and was it just more satire on the gerrymandering path of Tao?

«It is shaping up to be a blockbuster term on gerrymandering at the Supreme Court this term,» says Richard L. Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California at Irvine and author of the authoritative Election Law Blog.

An expert on gerrymandering explains the tech behind the map - making that helped the GOP take control of Congress.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday for Benisek v. Lamone, a case on gerrymandering in Maryland that could have broad effects on future elections.

Not exact matches

«I am worried that because of the impact that gerrymandering has had on many of the districts that it may be hard to make big changes» in the 2018 elections, Powell said.

Other potential showstoppers include a case about partisan gerrymandering and another round on President Trump's executive order on immigration.

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.

As things stand Labour, which campaigned at the election on holding a referendum on AV, is not going to support the bill because of what it sees as gerrymandering.

«It was one of the first bills I actually voted on when I finally got seated and I found it very ironic here I was in a gerrymandered district that had been drawn by for Republican Party and here I was voting for this and I stood up and said I don't support this because it enshrines our gerrymandered districts in the constitution and it's not an independent panel.»

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would consider whether partisan gerrymandering violates the Constitution, potentially setting the stage for a ruling that could for the first time impose limits on a practice that has helped define American politics since the early days of the Republic.

It's designed to detect cases in which one party may have won, widened or retained its grip on power through political gerrymandering.

With Republicans controlling both state chambers, the congressional delegation was expected to remain at six Republicans and one Democrat, which was not lost on critics, who alleged racial discrimination and political gerrymandering.

He promised to make the state's redistricting process free of politics and then signed off on Senate Republicans» obscene gerrymandering.

Governor Cuomo has threatened in the past to veto new district lines that are gerrymandered, and not done by an independent commission, but Cuomo has remained silent on the subject in recent weeks.

Government reform groups are split over whether an amendment on the November ballot to change the way legislative district lines are drawn is an improvement, or will make only make gerrymandering worse.

He delivered a riveting talk on how the Republicans took over in 2010 by using computer modeling to gerrymander and steal elections.

He warned that the Supreme Court has ruled against racial gerrymandering but has never ruled on partisan gerrymandering.

Redistricting on Steroids is the gerrymandering model David Daley revealed in his June 8th appearance at VID

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.

A situation in which a gentleman who was neither a contestant or running - mate in the substantive election on November 22 was permitted by INEC, the APC and the federal government, represented by the Attorney General of the Federation to usurp the candidacy of the deceased Alhaji Abubakar Audu when a running - mate was alive and willing to sustain the ticket was pure gerrymandering by certain interests to produce a desired outcome.

Koch is scheduled to testify today before the Senate Investigations Committee on a bill sponsored by Sen. Dave Valesky and Assemblyman Mike Gianaris that would end politically - controlled gerrymandering.

Tags: Andrew Cuomo, bob turner, gergory meeks, gerrymandering, Joseph Addabbo, Malcolm Smith, new york state legislative task force on demographic research and reapportionment, redistricting, shirley huntley

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

Despite all the speculation on whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo will stick to his pledge to veto LATFOR's gerrymandered and politically influenced district lines, there's a growing possibility that he'll never get the chance because the maps — as they currently stand — might not make it out of the Legislature at all.

He also launched a sustained attack on the Tories, claiming that the Government is «gerrymandering the electoral system» by pursuing boundary reforms and reducing the number of parliamentary seats.

Council district gerrymandering doesn't hurt so much when you're represented well, but our communities could be facing years of being overlooked and underserved if our next legislator's focus leans toward another spot on the map.

Common Cause, a non-profit, non-partisan citizen - advocacy group, charged that some of the proposed new Assembly districts on Long Island had been gerrymandered in what its spokesperson called «a game of follow the Democratic voters.»

The Reform Party has stood proudly against the establishment since 1996, and will not move away from opening the ballots, ending gerrymandering and limiting the influence of lobbyists on legislators.

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.

One state in which gerrymandering has arguably had an adverse effect on electoral competition is California.

This is particularly likely to occur when the minority party has significant obstruction power — unable to enact a partisan gerrymander, the legislature instead agrees on ensuring their own mutual reelection.

In her highest - profile appearance since sitting down with Wendy Williams earlier this month, Nixon articulated her progressive vision with aplomb, touching on everything from gerrymandering to criminal - justice reform to recreational marijuana legalization.

In November, voters will be able to approve a constitutional amendment that will require district lines to be drawn by an independent, bipartisan commission and at least three members who were not appointed by the majority conferences in either house must approve a plan before the Legislature votes on it, a key barrier to partisan gerrymandering.

Progressives have long accused Cuomo of disingenuously propping up the Senate Republican majority so he can use it as a convenient excuse — a buffer against having both legislative houses controlled by left - of - center Democrats — pointing to maneuvers like his 2012 deal with Skelos on a redistricting plan that gerrymandered districts in favor of the GOP.

Then he allowed the Republicans to gerrymander the Senate district lines in order to try to hang on to a majority even though there are two million more enrolled Democrats in the state.

Because gerrymandering relies on the wasted - vote effect, the use of a different voting system with fewer wasted votes can help reduce gerrymandering.

Sure, if he follows through on his promise to veto their gerrymander, the New York Times editorial board will cheer, but then, for as long as he remains in this particular office, Cuomo will have to live with either a vengeful Republican Senate majority or a dysfunctional Democratic one, which may turn out to be even worse for him.

The Republican Party controls every branch of the federal government, and has maintained a virtually uninterrupted stranglehold on New York's Senate for a half century, thanks to gerrymandering and Democratic collusion.

On April 20, 2016, the court ruled unanimously that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that a partisan gerrymander had taken place.

On September 23, 2011, opponents of the newly approved congressional district map filed suit in the Missouri 19th Judicial Circuit Court, alleging «partisan gerrymandering and deviations from state constitutional compactness requirements.»

In Cooper v. Harris, decided on May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, finding that two of North Carolina's congressional districts, the boundaries of which had been set following the 2010 United States Census, had been subject to an illegal racial gerrymander in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

This type of unintentional gerrymandering does take place on a massive scale on the state level, as well.