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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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This rural effect is further amplified by the malapportionment of voters between rural and urban constituencies.
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.
Constitutional or electoral malapportionment must not be confused with gerrymandering a form of arbitrary districting used to benefit the party that at a given time controls the apportionment process.
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.
Carr that malapportionment claims are justiciable apply equally to the question of partisan gerrymandering.

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