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EoL Articles: gerrymandering
... racism every day. Trading minority voting rights (gerrymandering) for gambling may have far reaching negative economic impact on various Indian tribes in the state.  Here again after nearly 4 centuries ...
Monday, 26 March 2012
Yesterday, the NY State "Legislative Task Force On Demographic Research And Reappointment" unveiled its proposed maps for redrawn State Senate and Assembly districts. And they are really horrible. ...
Friday, 27 January 2012
Albany, NY – New York Supreme Court Justice Eugene Devine today upheld New York’s law ending prison-based gerrymandering in the Little v. LATFOR lawsuit. His decision squarely rejects the plaintiffs’ ...
Saturday, 03 December 2011
... allow Mr. Schmitt to take Nassau County any lower than he already has.  Now he is threatening orphans to achieve his political goals.  Shame on him! How important is partisan gerrymandering?  ...
Saturday, 19 November 2011
... by Republicans. According to researchers at the good-government group Common Cause, the neighborhood is one of the clearest examples of partisan gerrymandering. It illustrates a process called "cracking," ...
Friday, 07 October 2011
The New York Court of Appeals today issued a unanimous ruling rejecting the gerrymandering GOP redistricting plan for Nassau County.  "Order, insofar as appealed from, reversed, without costs, and the order ...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
... prison-based gerrymandering," said Dale Ho, an NAACP attorney. Prison inmates provide a major population boost to several Senate districts represented by upstate Republicans, including LATFOR co-chair ...
Friday, 12 August 2011
... Senate Republicans are pushing to draw new lines, which will remain in effect for a decade, through a panel they control along with Assembly Democrats. The current system is widely derided as gerrymandering, ...
Tuesday, 09 August 2011

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