(1) But, according to Ruddick, the state council is a “gerrymander”, with factional leaders creating new “on-paper” branches that meet at most once a year in order to elect a delegate to state council and keep hold of “the numbers” – presenting Liberal reformers with exactly the same structural impediment to change as is faced by Labor.
(2) Some years earlier, Dr Stone also began the process that culminated in the fall of Dame Shirley Porter in the Westminster gerrymandering scandal.
(3) The national dialogue did express support for a "fairer" electoral system but there are no plans to change constituency boundaries or other mechanisms that preserve Sunni control: one Shia constituency has 15 times as many voters as a small Sunni one – classic gerrymandering.
(4) It is certainly true that in a system where seats are openly gerrymandered, 40% in the upper house can block almost anything, lobbyists are everywhere and you need vast sums of money to get elected there is a limit to how much progressive change one can really expect .
(5) This is particularly true in America, where constituencies are openly gerrymandered , both parties are funded by big money, and legislation is often written by corporate lobbyists.
(6) Even if the NLD wins a large percentage of the 664 parliamentary seats, the USDP, meaning the military, will automatically retain 25% of them under the terms of the junta’s gerrymandered constitution.
(7) And voter-ID laws are much easier for the average person to understand than, say, computer-assisted gerrymandering .
(8) David Cameron’s disgraceful gerrymanders, not just on boundaries, include a new-style electoral register, knocking off millions of mostly Labour voters.
(9) As for the gerrymandering allegations, he said he did not even attend the meeting in Keighley on Friday to choose Ukip council candidates where this supposedly took place.
(10) 7) Corbyn attacks the Tories for “gerrymandering” by trying to change parliamentary boundaries for the next election.
(11) Any commentator who speaks of “Ireland” (26 counties thereof) gaining “independence” (sic) whole ignoring the fact that almost one million of its citizens are now trapped in a gerrymandered United Kingdom statelet in which they want no part of, nor ever wanted, shouldn’t be pontificating on Scottish independence .
(12) Demographic realities will one day betray GOP racial gerrymandering tactics, inevitably making way for a blue state.
(13) Ed Balls: Labour did not deserve to win election Read more “To be frank it is an abuse of power by Theresa May, to gerrymander the electoral system and to stack it against Labour in this way,” the MP for Leicester South told Sky News.
(14) Roadblocks to reform in a shock conversion will look like gerrymandering: a new leader who had always believed in it would be needed to convince voters in a referendum on PR.
(15) As president, Lessig said, his goal would be to simply pass one sweeping piece of legislation to reform the electoral process which would create automatic voter registration, end gerrymandering and radically reform the campaign finance system.
(16) Farage said the final straw came on Friday, when there was a hustings meeting in West Yorkshire “where gerrymandering appears to have taken place”.
(17) Its president, Roger Clegg, who served in senior legal positions in the Reagan and Bush senior administrations, calls the university's policy "racial gerrymandering".
(18) In particular, Balls and chief whip Nick Brown oppose the idea of holding a vote on the same day as the general election, arguing that it will look like gerrymandering, confuse voters and distract from the government's central election message on the economy.
(19) When the changes were announced, Hunt said they were based on outdated electoral data and were “effectively gerrymandering” by the Conservatives.
(20) Under pre-clearance, states including Texas have been blocked from racial gerrymandering by redrawing electoral boundaries in an attempt to create segregated legislative districts.
Redistrict
Definition:
(v. t.) To divide into new districts.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the Texas case, which relates to redistricting, the Justice Department is filing what is known as a statement of interest, in support of the private groups that have filed suit.
(2) "The court's decision today and the decision earlier this week on the Texas redistricting plans not only reaffirm – but help protect – the vital role the voting rights act plays in our society to ensure that every American has the right to vote and to have that vote counted," he said.
(3) Golden’s district is now the 16th, following redistricting.
(4) Oh, and she became the most visible state legislator in the country last night after surviving a redistricting challenge in 2011 that was only beat back by her use of a suit under the Voting Rights Act.
(5) He mentions a case from last year in which Latino voters were discriminated against (the Texas redistricting map.)
(6) Redistricting maps passed by the Legislature may also take effect without approval from the federal government.” 6.06pm BST You can read Holder's statement here.
(7) The results were statistically significant and indicated that: 1) increases correspond to a decrease in the amount of extracellular water; 2) decreases represent intracellular water loss and subsequent transfer of water to the circulation; 3) diuretics lead to redistriction of water in the body.
(8) His friend Eric Holder, the former attorney general, said this week he had been talking to the former president about helping the new National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which will aim to combat Republican gerrymandering in the drawing of electoral maps.
(9) Yet, in light of the Shelby County decision, the Supreme Court discarded the lower court's Texas voter ID ruling , and threw out a ruling that found Texas' state redistricting maps were "enacted with discriminatory purpose" and diluted the Latino vote .
(10) Redistricting, in which constituency boundaries are redrawn, is polarising politics.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Congressman Meadows at a Tea Party rally But he won by a large majority, benefiting from a redistricting of the electoral boundaries that transformed the district, formerly Democratic, into a Republican stronghold.
(12) My own math , taking into account redistricting in 2011, says a 3pt Democratic win in the national vote and a takeover of the House would not be nearly as likely as in 2006; but a 4 or 5pt victory would probably do the trick.
(13) Experts predict that legislative redistricting and budget stretching will dominate the 72nd session of the Texas Legislature, convening January 8 in Austin.
(14) The GOP kept Latinos and black voters out of the redistricting process, added only one minority district, and manipulated an electoral map "that would look Hispanic, but perform for Anglos".