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How to use gerrymander in a sentence

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It also polls well under 5 per cent and could throw up the closest thing to a gerrymander if the previous election's turnout is repeated.
We will cut any tax, grease any campaign contributor and gerrymander any state to advance the cause of a Republican congressional majority.
The deliberate sectarian gerrymander that the Northern state was in the first instance has now disappeared, eroded by demographics.
As Polsby points out, the art of the gerrymander is another instance with respect to which the constitutional order has been turned on its head.
The Green's control of the council, while significant, was in fact an own goal created by the Labor Party's failed gerrymander.
He said the Government's electoral reforms would create a gerrymander, where electoral boundaries are created to give one party an advantage.
The Labor Party has thrown one of its basic principles out the window by now supporting the gerrymander in Western Australia.
Despite a gerrymander, the number of opposition seats rose from 22 to 45, mostly at the expense of the ruling party.
They say the current Congressional map is just an old Democratic gerrymander.
Umno continues to benefit from a gerrymander that favours rural Malay seats on peninsular Malaya as well as Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo.
If you're afraid of what a neutral redistricting will do, just imagine what a genuinely partisan gerrymander could accomplish.
A way should be found to create an upper house, and to so gerrymander the provinces that it over-represents the Sunni minority.
The rich and powerful in this country manipulate elections, and gerrymander voting districts.
When a newspaper company owns a cluster, it will likely gerrymander circulation areas and eliminate overlapping areas of circulation.
The only reason U.S. Senate seats stayed competitive is that the politicians cannot gerrymander state lines.
They are not in a position where they can gerrymander constituencies.
One of the assumptions many people have of his long time in power was that it was only able to occur because the gerrymander kept Labor out of office.
This is a government that blatantly indulged in open gerrymander, for example the re-allocation of defence force votes among surrounding marginal seats.
The Boston Gazette's editor combined that word with the surname of the governor, Elbridge Gerry, to produce gerrymander.
That outcome, in turn, was underpinned by a previous Republican gerrymander.
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He illustrates a gerrymander which actually made one Democratic vote equal to five Republican votes.
The gerrymander is not produced by the iniquity of parties, it is the outcome of the district system.
Consequently, every apportionment act involves more or less of the gerrymander.
Under such a system all unfairness would disappear, and the gerrymander would be impossible.
If you don't, I shall give the documents in the gerrymander affair to the papers the day after you fail.
If anything, LULAC's limited majority opinion and six separate concurrences plunged partisan gerrymander jurisprudence deeper into confusion.
Our current gerrymander jurisdictions can't serve us a a basis for planning a sustainable future.
This attempt to gerrymander will mean that a large number of people in Wales will be taken off the electoral register.
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