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Gerrymandering and be
: This can include Gerrymandering, exclusion of opposition candidates from eligibility for office, and manipulating thresholds for electoral success are some of the ways the structure of an election can be changed to favor a specific faction or candidate.
Gerrymandering should not be confused with malapportionment, whereby the number of eligible voters per elected representative can vary widely without relation to how the boundaries are drawn.
Gerrymandering soon began to be used to describe not only the original Massachusetts example but also other cases of district-shape manipulation for partisan gain in other states.

Gerrymandering and used
Gerrymandering is used most often in favor of ruling incumbents or a specific political party — the one drawing the map.

Gerrymandering and achieve
Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing district lines to achieve political gain for legislators.

Gerrymandering and electoral
How Gerrymandering can influence electoral results on a Voting system # Nonproportional and semiproportional methods | non-proportional system. Example for a state with 3 equally sized districts, 15 voters and 2 parties: Plum ( squares ) and Orange ( circles ). In ( a ), creating 3 mixed-type districts yields a 3 – 0 win to Plum — a disproportional result considering the state-wide 9: 6 Plum majority. In ( b ), Orange wins the urban district while Plum wins the rural districts — the 2-1 result reflects the state-wide vote ratio. In ( c ), gerrymandering techniques ensure a 2-1 win to the state-wide minority Orange party.
Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral district boundaries for political gain.
Gerrymandering was employed in the drawing of electoral districts to favor the rightist parties, with a positive bias towards the traditionally more conservative rural areas of the country.

Gerrymandering and for
Gerrymandering is most common in countries where elected politicians are responsible for defining constituency boundaries.

Gerrymandering and .
Gerrymandering is effective because of the wasted vote effect.
Gerrymandering relies on the wasted vote effect, effectively concentrating wasted votes among opponents while minimizing wasted votes among supporters.
Gerrymandering in Orleans County connected Rochester to Buffalo.
*" Elmwood: Molasses, Gerrymandering and Derek " by J. Anthony Day, The Harvard Crimson, March 24, 1971

may and be
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The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.
Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.
Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.
A measure of its widespread acceptance may be derived from a statement of the International Congress of Jurists in 1959.
Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.
What these fragments are and how they activate the go order may not be revealed.
An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.
While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.
or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.
The approach to the depiction of the experience of creation may be analytic, as it is for Miss Litz, or spontaneous, as it is for Merle Marsicano.

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Such an interferometer provides a means of absolute temperature measurement, and may be used as an alternative to the gas thermometer.
As a substitute for this, organic fertilizer dissolved in water to half the strength in the directions, may be used.
Currently, marina is used to indicate a municipal or commercially operated facility where a pleasure boat may dock and find some or all of the following available: gasoline, fresh water, electricity, telephone service, ice, repair facilities, restaurants, sleeping accommodations, a general store, and a grocery store.
In medicine the frequencies are much higher, transducers and the sonar beams themselves are much smaller, and different scanning techniques may be used, but the principles involved are the same as in sonar.
) On the other hand, even when the binomial model does not describe well the physical phenomenon being studied, the binomial model may still be used as a baseline for comparative purposes ; ;
When this is the case, the appropriate section of this manual will indicate that `` Continuation Cards '' may be used.
Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.
The resultant conflicting usage of index words or electronic switches may be avoided by reducing the number of symbolic names used, e.g., through the proper use of the EQU, XRELEASE, or SRELEASE statements.
The DRDW statement may be used for this purpose.
The DRDW statement may also be used to generate an RDW defining any area specified by the programmer.
A domestic automatic washer that will give equivalent results may be used.
Any flat-bed press capable of pressing a specimen 22 inches square may be used as an alternative.
The type of presentation of results used in the deterministic process may be used here, except that now the fourth column is redundant.
But because teeth sometimes may drift back to their original position, a retaining appliance is used to lock them in place.
`` Costs may seem high, but they used to be even higher '', says Dr. Brodie.
When the words are used, we are never sure which of the traditional meanings the user may have in mind, or to what extent his revisions and rejections of former understandings correspond to ours.
When we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlessness -- until redeemed -- the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state ''.
His point is not that mythology may not be used, but that it may no longer be regarded as the only or even the most appropriate conceptuality for expressing the Christian kerygma.
Mythological concepts may by all means still be used, but they can be used responsibly only as `` symbols '' or `` ciphers '', that is, only if they are also constantly interpreted in nonmythological ( or existential ) terms.
This may possibly be used as derogatory tactic against altruists, especially by those who are non-cooperators.
Its size is determined by its function as a glycogen and fat storage unit, and may change with the seasons as these reserves are built or used up.
Much energy is used in the vocalization and it takes a toll on the territory holder who may be displaced by a fitter rival if he tires.

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