What's the difference between redistrict and redraw?
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".
Redraw
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.
(v. i.) To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the proposals had been directed at seats that have not changed hands for many years, but said with the redrawing of the constituency boundaries required by David Cameron's desire to cut the number of constituencies no safe seats as previously defined would exist.
(2) Baboun, a former literature scholar, has spent her term redrawing municipal boundaries, dealing with the damage caused to Bethlehem’s business district by the wall dividing the West Bank from Israel, and focusing on providing sufficient accommodation for tourists and pilgrims.
(3) This has inevitably led to a significant reduction in registration rates.”Chris Ruane, a Labour MP on the political and constitutional affairs select committee (PCASC), said: “Students are dropping off the register like flies and this could have potentially serious effects in the election, but also for any redrawing of the constituency boundaries after the general election.” The falls come on top of what was already an increasingly inadequate register.
(4) Throughout the chaotic three years of the Arab spring, a potential redrawing of the regional map has always loomed large.
(5) The boundary commissions are currently redrawing the boundaries, but MPs and peers are not due to vote on specific proposals until autumn 2013.
(6) And when things seemed irredeemably bleak, along came Russia's Vladimir Putin, invading and destabilising Ukraine, unilaterally redrawing the map of Europe on the EU's frontier, and challenging its leaders to stop him.
(7) The conflict is redrawing some of the de facto internal boundaries of Iraq in favour of broader Kurdish control in the north.
(8) Party sources said discussions were also under way on how to fill the void in the legislative programme, as well as how to unwind the plans to redraw constituency boundaries.
(9) Intervention and time were found to produce interaction effects on subjects' ability to visually and linguistically identify objects and their praxic ability to recognize and redraw simple but intersecting geometric figures.
(10) But such crippling caution ignores the way bold transport policies can redraw the map.
(11) The findings redraw the perceived map of acute financial stress, finding it is not an exclusively northern or inner-city problem.
(12) The US is redrawing the regulatory landscape for its financial services industry as it last did after the Great Depression and the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) is hiring 100 new regulators.
(13) With its ability to launch attacks reduced by a military crackdown, Boko Haram is redrawing the battle lines in Nigeria's four-year insurgency by going after softer targets.
(14) With social care in crisis, meanwhile, these new approaches risk excluding some social care support needs, thereby redrawing the boundaries in a new place.
(15) It renders all human discourse the subject of government inquiry without warrant or discrimination and in doing so it redraws the line between citizen and state in an ugly way.
(16) The Greens have called on the government to abandon its map-redrawing exercise, which would trim the protected area which covers much of southwestern Tasmania.
(17) The intervention of the hedge funds means that the Co-op has been forced to redraw its original plan to recapitalise the bank, which would have left the group with a 75% stake.
(18) China's increasing role in emissions, compared with the decrease in the US, could redraw the battle lines of the talks.
(19) So it has been from the law and sound mind to redraw the borders of the provinces and give lengthy consideration to every development that occurs in the region.
(20) Sunday’s election comes on the day that Italians vote in a referendum on constitutional reform, another in a series of crucial votes across Europe helping to redraw the political map of the continent.