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Definition of Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering
Gerrymander Ger`ry*man"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gerrymandered; p. pr. & vb. n. Gerrymandering.] To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent. [Political Cant, U. S.] Note: This was done in Massachusetts at a time when Elbridge Gerry was governor, and was attributed to his influence, hence the name; though it is now known that he was opposed to the measure. --Bartlett.

Meaning of Gerrymandering from wikipedia

- 171–185. Look up gerrymander or gerrymandering in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gerrymandering. Articles from...
- struggled when partisan gerrymandering occurs such as in Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004) and Gill v. Whitford (2018). Typical gerrymandering cases in the United...
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- means larger districts, so annihilate the need and practice of gerrymandering, Gerrymandering is the practice of partisan redistricting by means of creating...
- Supreme Court case regarding racial gerrymandering and partisan gerrymandering. It's the first partisan gerrymandering case taken by the Supreme Court after...
- state for citizens to vote in. The state has been sued for racially gerrymandering the districts, which resulted in minority voting power being diluted...
- is essentially guaranteed to lose). Single-member districts enable gerrymandering, the practice of mani****ting district boundaries to favor one political...
- was the Cheng San GRC. The opposition has charged the government with gerrymandering due to the changing of GRC boundaries at very short notice (see below...
- hypothesis of no gerrymander if |CEG| > something like 7% often cited as a threshold for evidence of gerrymandering. Gerrymandering Evaluative Proportional...
- Paul Sarbanes. The district's previously odd shape was attributed to gerrymandering to favor Democratic candidates, following the 2000 and 2010 censuses...