What's the difference between officeholder and redistrict?
Officeholder
Definition:
(n.) An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The facts of what took place are disputed: the Portsmouth diocese denies there was any abuse and insists a priest is an officeholder, not an employee.
(2) This isn’t a function of poll numbers, or the Russia controversy, or any other melodrama of the past three months, but something more fundamental: no officeholder in Washington seems to understand President Donald Trump’s populism or have a cogent theory of how to effect it in practice, including the president himself.” Does the religious right’s decline help the alt-right?
(3) In the United States, political officeholders also have to pay attention to the needs of increasingly organized older people, since the tax-financed and federally regulated Medicaid system is largely responsible for financing long-term care for the elderly.
(4) As a first-in-the-nation state,” Kaufmann said, “our folks are discerning and even our officeholders dig a little bit deeper.” However, the real fuel for Iowa Republicans’ love for Trump is to be found in the strong ties between the candidate and Branstad.
(5) Clinton emails: FBI gets warrant as Comey told he may have broken law Read more The Office of Special Counsel (OSC), an independent federal investigative agency, cited longstanding policy in neither confirming nor denying any the existence of investigation into Comey for violating the Hatch Act, a law designed to prevent federal officeholders from abusing their power to influence an election.
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".