Sentences with phrase «voting districts»

If you are interested in the history of voting districts of a specific state, please ask it as a new question.

This gives great power to whoever has the power to define the borders between voting districts.

But counties and municipalities don't always map 1:1 to voting districts on state level.

By unanimous vote the district board earlier this month approved plans to go ahead with the park, joining a handful of other south suburbs that have opened dog parks in recent years.

Because someone must have the authority to define voting districts.

It initially targets eight major cities in swing voting districts.

Our states are failing one school or voting district at a time.

I would really like to see a major change in the formation of voting districts.

In the summer of 2016, a bipartisan panel of retired judges met to see whether they could create a more representative set of voting districts for North Carolina.

«There are more ways to draw voting districts in the US than there are quarks in the Universe.»

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously endorsed election maps that bolster the growing political influence of America's Latinos, ruling that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in drawing voting districts.

A unanimous court declared that Texas was permitted to apportion voting districts by population — including the undocumented.

I have heard a lot of outcry about gerrymandering voting districts.

It is illegal for those in power to redraw voting districts for their own gain — but hard to spot.

«Essentially members voted their district and that's how representative democracy works.

@JohnSlegers How the current voting districts and the rules for making them came into being is a historical question which will have a different answer depending on what country / state exactly you are asking about.

However, there is a simple alternative: abolish voting districts; let people choose their representative directly.

The country is divided into local voting districts, called constituencies for Westminster or wards inside local authorities, and the election takes place within each of these.

Get rid of the twenty arbitrary voting districts.

To gain extra seats, the incumbent party will redraw voting districts so that voters of the minority party will be grouped into smaller districts with less seats.

Secondly, municipal elections of Mayor, Common Council, Board of Education and other positions are also held in odd numbered years at thirteen polling places within five voting districts around the city.

From the question I understand that it means making each state a single voting district, but the existing answer seems to imply that it would also mean that all the Representatives are awarded to the most voted party, without proportionality.

A quick scan of the break down by voting district suggests that Eastchester and Bedford will help bridge that gap a little.

But the Supreme Court has never resolved whether voting districts should have the same number of people, or the same number of eligible voters.

After the primary, Rose would also have to face off against incumbent Donovan and flip the generally Republican voting district.

The final count extended Gallo's lead to seven votes; after a last - minute audit of a single Fifth Ward voting district, Clement conceded.

As for any prognosis or meaning from the match ups, which can't be examined by voting district until official results are released by the county Board of Elections in the coming weeks, it seems that the town has shifted back into a more conservative stance since electing a full Democratic slate nearly a decade ago.

The same game theory approach can produce fairer voting districts in US states, too

Michael McDonald, a political scientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, questions the validity of all these quantitative metrics, however, because they rely on creating a random sample of all possible voting districts.

In the Wisconsin case Whitford v. Gill, federal judges used the efficiency gap to rule that the state's voting districts represented an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

With thousands of maps and their resulting voting outcomes in hand, Mattingly and Graves could begin to analyse just how gerrymandered the North Carolina voting districts were.

The mathematician, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, has designed an algorithm that pumps out random alternative versions of the state's election maps — he's created more than 24,000 so far — as part of an attempt to quantify the extent and impact of gerrymandering: when voting districts are drawn to favor or disfavor certain candidates or political parties.

The newly founded Science Party, the brainchild of science writer Michael Brooks, faired poorly in its debut as Brooks came in last in his Bosworth voting district — he earned just 197 votes.

NCTQ found that a sizeable portion of the county's turnover took place in two particular low - income voting districts, and that many of the teachers who resigned left after only teaching a few years in the classroom.

Mr. Lopez, who was in the middle of his second four - year term, lost the Feb. 4 recall election in the largely Hispanic voting district by a majority of 71 percent to 29 percent of the 12,600 votes cast.

In 1993, the Bossier Parish school board submitted a race - neutral plan to redraw voting districts as required by the 1990 census.

In voting districts with populations greater than 35,000, no more than three judicial nominating commission members can be attorneys.

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.

Until 20 years ago, the creation of voting districts by the independent Boundary Commissions was a largely apolitical process, according to geographer Ron Johnston at the University of Bristol, UK.

Favors majority parties, as they can concentrate resources, change bureaucracy, establish and gerrymander voting districts.

Gerrymandering is the act of redefining borders between voting districts in order to gain a political advantage.

Speaking to a crowd at a March 2013 Rotary Club of Milwaukee event, Cooke added, «Our staff members voted the district one of the best workplaces in 2012, after they had lost all of their retirement benefits, because of how they were treated during the crisis.»

The two voting districts in Westport will now report to the renovated town hall in order to cast their votes this year.

Even the Voting Rights Act, which I like to think I would have voted for, has been used for a new form of gerrymandering intended to guarantee that a voting district will elect a minority.

Government grants, voting districts, school transfers, and much else is determined by the race count.

In 1812 he redefined the voting districts of Massachusetts.

I know there was a book by David Daley as well as the pending case in Wisconsin declaring the voting districts unconstitutional.

The problem for the individual voter is the same in that case: You have to choose between the two major parties in your voting district, and if you vote for any other party you could just as well stay at home.