Sentences with phrase «so gerrymandered»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

The voting population of gerrymandered districts is distributed so as to provide «safe» margins of victory in many districts while «wasting» opposition votes concentrated in a few districts.

Republicans turned their new state legislative majorities into laboratories of right - wing extremism — attacking women's right to choose, busting unions, gerrymandering Republican congressional districts, and so much more.

«I said during the campaign, when I was first running, that we have to stop the gerrymandering and that I support an independent commission so we have a non-partisan redistricting plan.

Laws are typically state - wide, affecting all groups at once, so when a party sues the state, the party almost always has something to recover from the investment; even if just a few more gerrymandered statehouse slots or mayors.

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.

She said Cuomo encouraged a «backroom deal» to get a group of Democratic senators to vote with the Senate GOP so that Republicans could keep control of the state Senate and added that he allowed the Republicans to draw their own gerrymandered district maps — a move she says suppressed Democratic voters.

True reform in the United States will be found when the ballot access laws are changed to open the ballots to all parties, and gerrymandering is outlawed so entrenched politicians can be voted out of office.

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.

«In 2010 Republicans had control of the Senate, and in doing so, were able to gerrymander districts like the 60th District.

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 question literally reads» divide districts, so that gerrymandering is avoided».

I say Cecilia's victory in a district so heavily gerrymandered * against * her has to count for a lot.

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.

Local councils gerrymander, so take control nationally of election funding.

So opposing gerrymandering has come to be seen as a partisan, Democratic issue.

So the argument wasn't about the implausibility of a partisan gerrymander - scheme, but about upstate versus downstate, which never gets old.

Republicans in North Carolina's General Assembly have repeatedly lost in the courts over their gerrymandering of legislative maps, so now they are trying to rig the state court's.

But here's the thing: New York districts are so uncompetitive — as a result of partisan gerrymandering — that over 90 percent of elections are determined in the primary.

«It's important to have rigorous ways of demonstrating [gerrymandering], so the decision is not just another partisan debate,» says Wesley Pegden, a mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who worked on the theorem.

Or what happens if districts can technically be drawn to satisfy the requirements, but must be obviously and severely gerrymandered to do so?