gerrymandering

15 8.5

The act of changing voting district lines to help one party unfairly

noun
/ˈdʒɛrɪˌmændərɪŋ/

: manipulación de los distritos electorales

Other vote dilution tactics, such as the use of at-large elections and the gerrymandering of district lines, also have been used.
partisan gerrymandering
racial gerrymandering
district gerrymandering

And, and I do think that they're the gerrymandering has been a problem.

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Examples

Many communities are concerned that gerrymandering leads to unequal political power and disenfranchises voters.
Finally, reformers argue that the distortive effects of prison gerrymandering are not merely abstract or theoretical; they matter in policy terms.

Academic text (2017)
In recent years, a movement to end prison gerrymandering has been growing.

Academic text (2017)
Republicans actually won a majority of the popular vote, but gerrymandering meant that they remained in the minority in the General Assembly.

Academic text (2017)
Minnesota just has a long history of good governance, and gerrymandering is, by definition, bad government.

Blog text (15)
A Tufts University professor has a proposal to combat gerrymandering: give more geometry experts a day in court.

Academic text (2017)
When prison gerrymandering occurs, line-drawers pick winners and losers; some communities gain representational weight, while others lose it.

Academic text (2017)
What we have here is a clear case of gerrymandering, impacting schoolchildren and schools in the district... that was created solely to separate students by race.

Rounders (1998)
The recent decision by the court aimed to curb gerrymandering, ensuring fairer representation in elections.
Activists are working hard to eliminate gerrymandering practices that distort the democratic process in their state.

Antonyms

fairness

196 1.9

Treating people equally and without bias

equity

Formal

35 5.3

Fair and equal treatment of people, for example at work or school

Surface Forms

gerrymandering singular

gerrymanderings plural

Morphology

gerrymandering = gerrymander (semi-transparent) = gerrymander + ing

The formation from the verb 'gerrymander' to the noun 'gerrymandering' is a regular, productive -ing nominalization.

Etymology

Gerrymandering comes from a US politician named Gerry and a voting district that people said looked like a salamander, so they combined the names into one. So, gerrymandering means drawing voting districts in strange shapes to give one group an 'unfair advantage'.