gerrymander
贪污,贪污腐败,贪污受贿,偷梁换柱
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- : U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
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- : U.S. Politics. to subject to a gerrymander.
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We often talk about individual features of our system — voter suppression, extreme gerrymanders, the electoral college — as anti-majoritarian.
In fact, districts with a minority population significantly higher than 50 percent may be trying to “pack” nonwhite voters into too few districts — the mark of a racial gerrymander.
If you don't, I shall give the documents in the gerrymander affair to the papers the day after you fail.
It happens every few years that the newspapers are full of more or less excited talk about a "gerrymander."
It was entirely a party fight; for, by grace of the last gerrymander, the nomination carried with it the certainty of election.
It is not settled who is entitled to the authorship of the word "Gerrymander," for which a number of claimants have appeared.
It was from this incident that the word "gerrymander," so often heard in politics in these days, took its name.