The video explains what gerrymandering is and how it works using examples from the animal kingdom. It starts by showing a new government that is a democracy and has a legislative branch. In this system each citizen gets one vote and they are split up into ranges and each range will elect one representative. These ranges stay in place until a census taker comes along and notices that the population has moved and grown, this mean that the ranges boundaries must be redrawn. The representatives hire…
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politically educated is gerrymandering, or “drawing district boundary lines for political advantage,” as the textbook puts it (Dye, pg 354). While redistricting in it of itself is a normal process, somewhat corrupt House members use it to secure their political positions. Not only are these members cheating their way to political authority, but also doing so without most of the public even knowing what gerrymandering is. When asked, “What do you think about gerrymandering?” most individuals in the…
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Current American democracy is defined by a term known as gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is the political process of deliberate manipulation of electoral district boundaries for partisan advantage. Historically, the roots of gerrymandering lie in undermining the voting power of minorities. Gerrymandering is an effective tool to dilute the power of voters in America. Along this comes disenfranchisement, or voter suppression; systemically targeting opposing political groups via polling locations to…
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states from taking part in "racial gerrymandering." Racial gerrymandering happens when a state depends on race to draw up limits of at least one particular constituent locale. Such gerrymandering is impermissible in light of the fact that it hurts a person, who is subjected to a racial characterization, and the person's lawmaker, who trusts his essential commitment is to speak to just a particular racial gathering. The Supreme Court sees racial gerrymandering as so heinous that states can't get…
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Gerrymandering is unconstitutional because parties and the people are unequally represented in the redrawing of districts that occurs. The goal of a partisan gerrymander is to attempt to make opposing side waste votes, and that’s what the efficiency gap measures. Partisan gerrymandering is not fair because it forces the opposing side to waste votes, which are all votes that are beyond what is necessary. There is a certain amount of votes that is needed to win the district, and any votes that go beyond…
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Gerrymandering is something that I do not agree with at all. It is defined as, “Manipulating the political districts to rig the outcome of elections to favor one political party over another.” ("What is Gerrymandering?"). This means dividing up districts into crazy, abnormal lines which sometimes don't even make since on how they have been divided. This idea came from a founding father named Elbridge Gerry. He was the fifth vice president as well as the governor of Massachusetts. Gerry was the first…
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actually is causing a lot of unnecessary problems to our community. Voting is one huge role we play in as the people voting for what representative we want in office. But the way gerrymandering setup is to ensure the power of one party to win the majority of seats in an election than the number which its percentage of the total vote authorizes it too. view changes. Gerrymandering allows the absolute majority party within a given State to increase the number of seats it can win in the future…
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and enclose a map of each district. C) Does the district show any signs of gerrymandering? Explain. 2.) A and B) At the place I live Irving, TX goes under the Dallas County. In the state house there are 115. The representative of the state house district 115 is Bennett Ratliff. In the senate district there are 16. The representative of state senate district 16 is John Carona. C.) Yes there was a sign of gerrymandering because in the Dallas County itself there were a lot of Hispanics, African…
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What Is The Best Voting System? Why? I think that the Mixed Member Proportional Representation(MMP) is the best voting system. It prevents gerrymandering and strategic voting (voting for the person who’s closest to their first choice if they know their first choice won't win). First Past the Post (FPTP) prevents some people's votes from counting therefore not every votes their first choice. The MMP allows people to vote truly because you can place a different vote for the person in your riding…
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being able to think with an open mind. Not to look at the world in such a one-dimensional manner but to see it for what it truly is. The example of ghettos they used in the book was excellent; you have to look not just at the ghettos but at the suburbs as well. We must look at all the aspects of the ghetto such as, economic field, political field, educational field, and legal field. What this is trying to say is that much like race this concept cannot be isolated, it must be looked at with all the intertwined…
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