gerrymander

Example Sentences

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Republican presidential primaries, like gerrymandered congressional districts, give outsize power to candidates with committed base supporters.

From Los Angeles Times

Normally you say state elections are important, but when they've been gerrymandered so much, I don't see things getting better in Tennessee for decades.

From Salon

Wisconsin also has the most extreme partisan gerrymandering in the United States.

From Washington Post

Supreme Court will rule in a racial gerrymandering case from Alabama that voting rights advocates fear could virtually dismantle the nearly 60-year-old Voting Rights Act.

From Seattle Times

If Judge Protasiewicz wins, Democrats are certain to challenge the state’s gerrymandered legislative maps — and during the campaign, she has called them “rigged.”

From New York Times