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As a result of the gerrymander, O's seats have cost it more votes than G's seats.
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The exact author of the term gerrymander may never be definitively established.
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A party that can gerrymander local districts can win more than its share of seats.
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It protected them against a potential partisan gerrymander by the Democrats.
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That outcome, in turn, was underpinned by a previous Republican gerrymander.
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The non-BCS bowls have more leeway to gerrymander which teams they invite.
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Republicans were able to gerrymander because they control most statehouses.
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If you are a democrat you want to gerrymander districts and have an electoral college.
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Four other justices said that the Court should never strike down a partisan gerrymander.
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- An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
- Divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts
- Gerrymandering is a form of boundary delimitation (redistricting) in which electoral district or constituency boundaries are deliberately modified for electoral purposes, thereby producing a contorted or unusual shape. ...
- (gerrymandering) The practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party
- (gerrymandered) an area divided among different groups so as to give one group an advantage because more people of that group live in a certain part. Voting districts are sometimes gerrymandered, created with odd shapes and boundaries so that one political party has an advantage.
- (Gerrymandering) The manipulation of congressional district lines to maximize the partisan advantage of a political party or faction; term was coined in 1812 to describe the Massachusetts redistricting plan under Governor Elbridge Gerry.
- (gerrymandering) designing legislative districts to favor one party's candidates over another.
- (Gerrymandering) Drawing of a strangely shaped congressional district to give an advantage to a particular party, faction, or race.
- (Gerrymandering) Occurs where a roisterer at a party, particularly one where he is confronted by a sea of unfamiliar faces, becomes too over-refreshed to know whether he is talking to Gerry or Amanda.
