Warning

Info

Warning

Info

Warning

Info

LSDefine

Simple English definitions for legal terms

institutional gerrymandering

Read a random definition: assignation house

A quick definition of institutional gerrymandering:

Institutional gerrymandering: This is when people in charge of making voting districts (areas where people vote) change the number of representatives in each district to give one political party an unfair advantage. They might do this by giving more representatives to areas where their party is popular, or by taking away representatives from areas where the other party is popular. This is not fair because it makes it harder for people who support the other party to have their voices heard.

A more thorough explanation:

Definition: Institutional gerrymandering is the practice of manipulating the number of representatives per district in order to give one political party an unfair advantage. This is done by changing the boundaries of voting districts to dilute the opposition's voting strength.

For example, let's say there are two political parties in a state: the Red Party and the Blue Party. The state has 10 districts, and each district elects one representative to the state legislature. The Red Party is in power and wants to maintain its control, so it redraws the district boundaries to pack as many Blue Party voters as possible into a few districts, while spreading out Red Party voters across the remaining districts. This means that even though the Blue Party may have more overall voters, they will only win a few districts, while the Red Party will win the majority of the districts and maintain their power.

Institutional gerrymandering can also occur in other types of political units, such as school districts. For example, a school board may redraw the boundaries of school districts to give certain neighborhoods or groups of students more resources and funding, while neglecting others.

institutional broker | institutionalize

Warning

Info

General

General chat about the legal profession.
main_chatroom
👍 Chat vibe: 0 👎
Help us make LSD better!
Tell us what's important to you
10:47
Bio Chemistry is odd, some ppl just cannot absorb certain nutrients/vits. Like some calcium deficient ppl actually loose more calcium when they increase intake.
10:48
also some ppl are hyper sensitive to hormones/vit/nutrients.
JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:48
@GreyCeaselessMammoth: love my masris
JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:48
@PuppyBot: I burn bad i don’t get it either
cumsock
10:49
i burn worse
shaquilleoatmeal
10:49
deficiencies are one thing, what scares me the most is if i ever became antibiotic resistant
GreyCeaselessMammoth
10:50
i'm going again to egypt this summer, i think it'll be my last time for a while, at least until after law school
PuppyBot
10:50
i wonder if renard is going to get me that snowglobe from paris
GreyCeaselessMammoth
10:50
@JumpySubsequentDolphin: my cousins wife is palestinian, their wedding was so cool. it was neat learning about the palestinian wedding traditions
PuppyBot
10:50
prob not :/
10:51
I tan super well, its a wild blessing being eastern european and doesnt make much sense
10:51
@Mostlylegal: same. During end of summer i am darker than some black ppl
JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:51
@GreyCeaselessMammoth: hehe my brother’s wife is Egyptian. but omg I love palestinian weddings. did they have a zaffeh/dabke group perform
10:51
I used to get called hispanic a lot, same for my mom
10:52
o well we all the same race
10:52
one love
10:52
<3
10:53
its so obvious when someone is dragging their feet at work and it kills me, i hate it so much
jackfrost11770
10:54
mostly legal tan slav gang rise uo
jackfrost11770
10:54
we are a select few
10:54
fr fr, that kazakh blood is def doing it for you
@Mostlylegal: same but i’m brown so i just get browner
jackfrost11770
10:54
yeah haha also my dad grew up in odessa
lilypadfrog
10:54
cramping up at work. i don’t even care anymore
jackfrost11770
10:55
so anything south russia is like basically tropical climate lmfao
shaquilleoatmeal
10:55
5 mins till lilly gets mich
10:55
@jackfrost11770: no kidding, ive been, my mom is from lviv
jackfrost11770
10:55
ive never been always wanted to go, maybe sometime in the future :(
cumsock
10:56
who tf be searching be on linkedin
cumsock
10:57
me*
LSD+ is ad-free, with DMs, discounts, case briefs & more.