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• n  an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
• v  divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts

• The phrase gerrymander, coined in the early 1800s to describe a salamander- shaped district engineered by Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry, originally referred to an amphibian .
• By 2001, negotiators hoped they could finesse these demands and could gerrymander the city into an Arab East Jerusalem that the Palestinians could call a capital and a Jewish West .
• What President Truman wanted was specific legislation outlawing the gerrymander and requiring the states to divide their districts into compact units of between 300,000 and 400 .

News & Articles

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• Beyond Black and White, New Force Reshapes South
  Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling on voting rights, a temptation to gerrymander districts could harm the G.O.P.’s long-term prospects.
  June 25, 2013 - New York Times
• New Face of South Rises as an Extralegal Force
  Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling on voting rights, a temptation to gerrymander districts could harm the G.O.P.’s long-term prospects.
  June 25, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Winston Peters in Scoop.co.nz
  It is hard to avoid the conclusion that his intention is to delay the election until he is confident he can gerrymander the outcome,Mr Peters said.
• Ted Cruz in Dallas Morning News
  The court-drawn map perpetuated the 1991 Democratic gerrymander,Mr. Cruz said.
• Anthony Kennedy in New York Times
  We reject the statewide challenge to Texas redistricting as an unconstitutional political gerrymander,Kennedy wrote. "It would be seen as a power grab in a lot of places."