Sentences with phrase «own gerrymandered»

The rich have also used their resources to «influence electoral, legislative and regulatory processes,» and the political process is now distorted by gerrymandering.

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

To claim so would be to ignore longer - term trends, including extreme gerrymandering and the rise of political dark money that make elected officials more likely to appeal to extremes.

«Democrats are extremely fired up right now,» said Sam Wang, a Princeton University neuroscientist and statistician who has developed a statistical model for analyzing partisan gerrymandering.

«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.

In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

Swisher refers to 12b - 1 compensated advisors in a fiduciary world as a «case study of a potential prohibited transaction in my book» that would «require some legal gerrymandering» to justify.

Court rulings around the nation have also reduced the effects of partisan gerrymandering, leaving the G.O.P. potentially more vulnerable to the effects of a wave election.

It's not the «fault» of those that live in rural areas that their influence is so exagerated; I think a large part of it was the PC's DELIBERATE gerrymandering of constituencies (about 20 or so years ago) to ensure that any urban opposition would be diluted by rural supporters.

There's a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts look like?

Opposition leaders and human rights groups have accused the PAP of gerrymandering and demanded more transparency in the boundary changes of constituencies.

Before the Dominion Elections Act (1920), voting in Canadian federal elections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recommend it).

Pre-Electoral Manipulations and Gerrymandering.

[6] The clearest example of gerrymandering was the dissolution of the Joo Chiat single ward, which was fiercely contested in the 2011 election by the WP.

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

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

Listen to Slate's show about the census citizenship question, Trump's (lack of) legal representation, and gerrymandering.

Yet it is to such double - standard setting, such gerrymandering, such maneuvering that many feel compelled to turn.

The mischief that flows from gerrymandering standards to create a preconceived version of diversity ramifies into consequences that even supporters of group preferences find dispiriting.

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

It means our democracy is in tatters because it is so gerrymandered, so polluted by money and so divided by professional political hacks that we can no longer hold the ruling party to account.

In addition to calling your representatives, consider attending a town hall, writing letters the editor of your local paper, connecting with the local Democratic Party to help with voter registration efforts and to challenge voter suppression / gerrymandering, and (because it's becoming painfully obvious that progressives have ceded local politics to the extreme right for too long), running for office or helping a better candidate get the job.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's philological gerrymandering has been far too influential for far too long.

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

Gerrymandering (should be illegal but isn't and accounts for the majority of real voter fraud) 5.

If you think today's conference landscape is confusing, get a load of the gerrymandered world of tomorrow

Even House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck, a dedicated foe of anything but smokestacks in the dunes area, squeezed through his gerrymandered Second District by a relative whisker.

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.

As Tom Delay found out in in Texas in 2003, one can still get a lot of what others would call gerrymandering past the court.

The odds that someone trying to gerrymander multi-member districts will screw it up and end up hurting (or at least not helping) the party that they are trying to favor when they draw district lines is much greater.

One of the simplest means of dealing with this even retains the electoral college: have the EC allocate its votes for each state proportionately to the vote, regardless of electoral district (which also renders gerrymandering almost irrelevant, since the state is considered as a whole).

Is Adam Ruins Everything - Why Rigging Elections Is Completely Legal an accurate description of 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.

Note that gerrymandering generally includes this as part of its goals, as unbalanced population is a reason to invalidate districts.

I'm a bit confused that half of your examples seem not to be examples of gerrymandering.

And with the Democratic enrollment edge in this district, even despite the Senate GOP's best gerrymandering efforts during the redistricting process, it certainly didn't help Amodeo to be splitting the left - of - center vote with Davis.

The problem is that what you may consider gerrymandering is not something that an impartial court can technically say.

@Chad - the fact that this map wasn't considered by the court to be «gerrymandering» doesn't invalidate this asnwer.

I've been writing a paper about Gerrymandering, but whilst reading about Electoral Districts, I started to wonder.

He lost during the last presidential voting year in a district that was gerrymandered for him and he has contributed nothing since then... get a real opponent and he will lose by a large margin.

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-.

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.

Plus, the primary elections are all - important across much of the country, again in part because of gerrymandering, and they'll start up next Spring.

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

For example, in Illinois, gerrymandering in 2011 led to the House delegation changing from eleven Republicans and eight Democrats to twelve Democrats and six Republicans.

The point of gerrymandering is to achieve a massed result different from the massed popular vote, which is the same criticism leveled at the electoral collage.

Without gerrymandering and huge amounts of dirty money the TEApubs would be a clear minority.

The voting rights act doesn't say that Gerrymandering is illegal but specifies that very specific gerrymandering in favor of minorities has to be done.

there are perfectly good reasons for gerrymandering: to protect the minorities and to give them a voice, for example.