Exempel på gerrymandering

• 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.

• The opposition accused the government of electoral fraud, ballot stuffing, miscounts, and gerrymandering.

• This number could easily drop to two under a redistricting system that prevented racial gerrymandering.

• Were only a few districts gerrymandered for specific incumbents, a gerrymandering that would not show up in a statistical analysis of all of the districts?

• These standards can be analyzed for their partisan impact and selectively applied to maximize partisan advantage, but, in contrast to blatant malapportionment or gerrymandering, these factors are not inherently partisan.

• To dilute or alter it would be unacceptable and a move born out of political gerrymandering, not a move in favour of maritime safety.

• I therefore take it at its face value that this is not sharp gerrymandering, because the official is to be used for some other purpose.

• But if it gerrymandered the beauty contest, what else is it gerrymandering?