Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering is very essential in our society because it entitles equal representation of seats that represents each district. Gerrymandering is a method that filters seats in the House of Representatives, no state will have too many seats and nor too little representation depending on the census, which is conducted every ten years. Gerrymandering is a method that filters out the too little representation or too much representation for each state district. This term brings a balance of representation to not just the districts, but to the House of Representatives. It is important that each state district has equal representation because one state can dominate another when it comes to passing, voting, or creating new laws. Our…

The promise of America has always been that it would be a government by the people, for the people. However, gerrymandering is and ever-looming threat to American ideals, and is potentially one of the biggest threats to equal representation for Americans.By further understanding what this phenomenon is and how the nature of undermined representation manifests itself though the gerrymandering of congressional districts, it can be deduced how basic American values are potentially compromised…

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Gerrymandering is unethical and rightfully wrong as it has the opportunity to have an unequal representation of a state (Politics and Policy). Somehow, we see this happen every ten years after a census, yet there are very few who blink an eye at it. Politicians say that it is only for the better good. But, is it really? When you look at the House of Representatives, there are about fifty more republicans than democrats (as shown in figure 1-1). This may alter the next election, however, as…

Introduction “More delicate than the historians’ are the map-makers’ colors (Bishop 1).” Gerrymandering is when a district’s boundaries are redrawn to benefit particular political parties’ agendas (Ingraham 1). Gerrymandering promotes the statistical concept of Simpson’s paradox. Simpson’s paradox describes the phenomenon of having a higher percentage of votes; however not having more votes numerically (Simpson’s 1). Gerrymandering is similar because it also gives the possibility of winning the…

Davis, Wlezien, and Flores describe Gerrymandering as, “the practice of drawing district lines in such a way as to give candidates from a certain party, ethnic group, or faction an advantage.” At the time I started executing the assignment the concept of Gerrymandering was still unfamiliar. However, by manipulating the boundaries and placing the different populations into districts, I came to understand how those in power manipulate the system. By the end of the assignment everything became…

Cranston” the City of Cranston, Rhode Island counted inmates as part of the total population when conceiting district lines, causing prison gerrymandering. The first district found that the City of Cranston had not violated the Equal Protection Clause. In a sense, prison gerrymandering legal under Evenwel v. Abbott. Prison Gerrymandering is “the practice of counting incarcerated people as residents of prisons when drawing electoral districts” (Davidson v. City). This case has many contradictions…

“The Democrats are under-represented by about 18 seats in the House, relative to their vote share in the 2012 election”, states the Washington Post. How is this possible the one political party can be so underrepresented when we are told that every voice is equally represented in the House of Representatives? In comes the term gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is as old as Democracy is here in the United States. It dates back to our founding fathers. What is gerrymandering and how does it affect…

but the most effective and instantaneously acting one would be to take the power of redrawing district lines entirely out of the hands of the legislature and let an independent nonpartisan commission take over the job (Prokop, 2015). This method would work very well and almost entirely rid Texas of gerrymandering. Other states actually use a similar method to this called ostensible redistricting commissions, but the problem with this is that the politicians appoint the members of the commission.…