Sentences with phrase «which partisan gerrymandering»

In which partisan gerrymandering and other perks of office allow incumbents to choose their voters, not the other way around.

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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.

The product is the «hyper - partisan,» in his words, lines which LATFOR, the state's legislative redistricting arm, came out with, that gerrymander the districts in such a way as to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate and the Democratic majority in the Assembly.

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.

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

While New York is deeply blue in aggregate — Hillary Clinton carried Trump's home state by more than 20 points — the 2012 round of redistricting saw House seats drawn by a federal court rather than subjected to normal partisan gerrymandering, which made several seats politically competitive.

Justice Gorsuch argued that partisan gerrymandering claims arise under Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, which requires the federal government to «guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,» and which the Court has long dismissed as giving rise only to non-justiciable political questions.

Unlike the other cases, Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone, which involved partisan gerrymandering, this case involves allegations of racially discriminatory redistricting in violation of the Voting Rights Act and / or the Equal Protection Clause.