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Origin of gerrymander: 1812, Americanism; after E. Gerry (governor of Massachusetts, whose party redistricted the state in...MORE?
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The paper combines the optimal gerrymandering approach in political science with the “fair cake division” results in mathematics and economics to consider optimal partisan gerrymandering schemes on a given territory. We analyze existence an...
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To keep themselves/ their party in control.
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To redraw voting district boundaries specifically to aid a political party in an election.
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One of the fundamental underpinnings of democracy is the notion that "the people" get to select their political leaders. Of course, many battles had to be fought and won in the United States to ensure that "the people" a...
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The Albany Project has a brilliant run of the numbers from November's election for the state Senate. Bottom line: Democratic candidates got 51.1% of the votes, republicans 47.7%. However, the resultant distribution of seats in the legislatu...
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With more state houses and governorships moving Democratic, it is possible to see the gerrymandering technique shift to the Democrats favor. The Republicans have mastered the art of crafting districts where just enough rural voters outweigh...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/14/3221/7147
One of the most fascinating things about the state of Illinois is the sheer volume of taxing bodies there are. This village has an unreal amount of taxing bodies that fall inside our boundaries. I am going to list them, and I am sure I will...
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You have to wonder. It was so brazen, it makes one wonder what other illegal acts they did that weren't as out in the open.
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Tony Quinn had a lot of provocative and interesting things to say on my radio show: -- The idea that Democrats will ever go along with redistricting reform in any way, shape or form is silly given that they see the 2010 census and 2011 gerr...
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