0 an occasion when someone in authority changes the borders of an area in order to increase the number of people within that area who will vote for a particular party or person:
Elections may be nominally free, but governments engage in extensive gerrymandering, manipulation of voter registration and harassment of opposition parties.
In contrast, if local boundaries are respected, levels of malapportionment increase, while gerrymandering becomes more difficult to accomplish.
These results strongly support the claim that gerrymandering, if it occurred, was an isolated rather than widespread phenomenon.
A final gerrymandering question can be asked about individual rather than systematic gerrymandering.
Indeed, this would seem precisely to be the point of much gerrymandering.
The results of the first election, however, suggest that these gerrymandering efforts were of little consequence.
This inconsequential gain also comes at a high price: tolerating high levels of gerrymandering.
The second front was what is commonly known as gerrymandering, where electoral boundaries are changed to favour the interests of one party.
