gerrymander
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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 .