Gerrymander

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
2. fiil To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.

   “The superintendent helped gerrymander the school district lines in order to keep the children of the wealthy gated community in the better school all the way across town.”

3. fiil To change the franchise or voting system in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.

   “[The Reform Bill's] main purpose will be so to gerrymander the electorate as to give the greatest possible assistance to the Radical party at the next election.”

4. fiil To deliberately bring in voters of one's own party or displace voters of another party from a voting district in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.

   “Fermanagh Council even went so far as to create the new village of Donagh in an attempt to move Catholics out of Newtownbutler, four miles away, so unionists could gerrymander a majority.”

5. isim The act of gerrymandering.
6. isim A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.

   “Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across four counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.”

7. fiil Obsolete form of gerrymander.

   “The latter attempted (at June Session) to provide for the appointment of Madisonian Electors by the Legislature; they attempted also to Gerrymander the State for the choice of Representatives to Congress; […]”

8. isim Obsolete form of gerrymander.

   “The sensibility of the good people of Massachusetts is at present too much awakened to this ‘Gerrymander’ to require [etc.].”