Voting Districts Quotes

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.

Moscow has merged city voting districts with adjacent rural ones so as to dilute the urban vote with the more conservative and rural one,

Gerrymandering is not hard. The core technique is to jam voters likely to favor your opponents into a few throwaway districts where the other side will win lopsided victories, a strategy known as “packing.” Arrange other boundaries to win close victories, “cracking” opposition groups into many districts.

Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.

Asked since 1790. Race is key to implementing many federal laws and is needed to monitor compliance with the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Acts. State governments use the data to determine congressional, state and local voting districts. Race data are also used to assess fairness of employment practices, to monitor racial disparities in characteristics such as health and education and to plan and obtain funds for public services.

Redistricting will determine the future control of Congress.

American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.

Appearances do matter.

Political boundaries in their most physical terms can make or break an election. The manipulation of electoral districts can make them either 'blue-hot' or 'red-hot' depending on the level of intensity felt in either camp to such shifting ground.

One goal of empowerment is to gain influence in as many elections as possible.... Beware of plans that pack you into super-minority districts, that ghettoize minorities.

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.