Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering: Good or Bad? Gerrymandering is the manipulation of boundaries as to favor one party or class. This form of control has gone back and forth between the Democratic and Republican parties. The practice, having been around since the beginning of American politics, has had many negative and positive effects on elections, politics, and parties. In a famous court case, Baker v. Carr, the lack of enforcement of gerrymandering regulation in the states was brought to the attention of the…

your say or the people’s say when voting for your country’s leaders, then you should know that gerrymandering is an unfavorable and atrocious way that many politicians have attempted to deceive the voting system. Gerrymandering violates the US Constitution that our founding fathers worked so hard to create. It is a very inequitable thing to undertake. Therefore, I am 100% against the idea of gerrymandering as it gives many parties an unjustified dominance in many states when voting electorally,…

Prior to playing the gerrymandering game, I knew that it was the manipulation of districts in order to gain a political advantage of some kind. It is possible to do this because the districts have to be redrawn based on updated census data, as population is always changing. I also knew that it is difficult for the opposing party to win an election when the controlling party gerrymandered the district to favor them. While playing the game, I learned that it is difficult to adjust the districts…

Ever wonder why it feels like your vote does not count? The answer can be summed up with one simple word: gerrymandering. But what exactly is gerrymandering? In a nutshell, it is altering the way your votes are added up to affect how the results look at the end of the day. Gerrymandering uses this to wrongly affect how the House of Representatives looks and is therefore destroying our democracy. Here is how it is done. In most states, the state legislature is the one in control of redistricting.…

Gerrymandering is the process of altering electoral districts to favor a political party over the other by receiving more votes in that district based on the population demographics and party affiliation. The practice of gerrymandering was created when Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts had enacted a bill that would allow the state to the redistricted in a way that would favor the party he represented, the Democratic-Republican Party, over the Federalists. When the redistricting plan was…

legislature is being tried on accounts of illegal partisan gerrymandering. The Democrat led legislature drew districts with the goal of maintaining their party’s power in the state legislature. The result of this gerrymandering was an overrepresented Democratic party, inaccurately reflecting the views of our state’s citizens. It’s important to acknowledge that our court’s ruling on this issue has larger implications in the battle against gerrymandering as a whole. Gill v. Whitford 16 U.S. 1161…

Provided below are my insight about the corruption in regards to corruption over money, and gerrymandering. I also touch on trustworthiness and morals in our government officials. I acknowledge my views may be different than someone else’s. I stand strongly and firmly back my beliefs with information provided and personal insight. The document provides an overview of the Supreme Court’s ruling to not limit the amount of money an individual can pour into political groups. The issue arose that…

such an undemocratic practice as gerrymandering is allowed to work almost unchecked in politics! How is it that America prides herself on giving an equal voice to each of her citizens, yet she allows politicians to create grotesque new voting districts in order to favor their party? Although the practice of gerrymandering has been used by politicians almost since the foundation of the country, it is rarely brought to the attention of most people. Gerrymandering is gradually destroying democracy…

Gerrymandering is the process of drawing congressional districts in a way that favors one political party or interest group. These partisan officials like state legislatures and state governors often use three different gerrymandering methods to give their own party’s candidates an electoral advantage. Strategies of partisan gerrymandering following 2010 census has had a huge impact on gerrymandering on the U.S House election results in 2012 and 2014. According to Gerrymandering Plus Ohio, a…

parties gain an advantage by redrawing voting districts. This process of redrawing voting districts to favor one’s political party is considered gerrymandering. It creates districts that are irregularly shaped and is a legal process unless it violates the 1965 voting rights act which makes it illegal to redistrict based off of minority voters. Gerrymandering has been successful in recent years because in 2012 gerrymandered states such as Pennsylvania won 49% of the vote and took 72% of house…