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What does malapportionment mean?

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Noun
  1. (politics) Any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).
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Malapportionment is so severe that Roraima has one deputy per 30,000 voters, while Sao Paulo has one deputy per 400,000 voters.
This process results in malapportionment of institutional power that overwhelmingly favors fighter pilots.
As with women's suffrage, racial equality, and malapportionment, the equal rights of all voters were not always a part of our national experience.
This proportionality somewhat mitigated the very high malapportionment of the electoral college itself.
This rural effect is further amplified by the malapportionment of voters between rural and urban constituencies.
If geographic areas, for instance, are assumed to have an equal right to be represented because the area is considered to be a viable constituency, malapportionment in terms of population is inevitable.

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