| 词汇 | gerrymander |
| 释义 | gerrymander verb[ I or T ] disapprovinguk /ˈdʒer.iˌmæn.dər/ us /ˈdʒer.iˌmæn.dɚ/ to change the borders of an area in order to increase the number of people within that area who will vote for a particular party or person: 为使某党或某人获胜而不公正地划分选区以增加支持方投票者 The Prime Minister tried to gerrymander the recent elections in two ways. 在最近的几次选举中，总理试图以两种方式不公正地划分选区，以达到获胜的目的。 The districts are so badly gerrymandered that a challenger can't win.这些地区的选区划分很不公平，挑战者因此无法获胜。 See gerrymandering The government dropped plans to gerrymander rural constituencies. Lawmakers remain free to gerrymander to preserve their power. The US Supreme Court has ruled that districts cannot be gerrymandered to benefit any racial group. Elections absentee absentee ballot absentee vote absentee voter absentee voting enfranchisement entrance poll exit poll first-past-the-post flip proxy proxy vote proxy voter proxy voting psephologist voting voting booth voting machine voting slip whistle-stop gerrymander | American Dictionarygerrymander verb[ T ] us/ˈdʒer·iˌmæn·dər/ politics & government to divide an area into election districts (= areas that elect someone) in a way that gives an unfair advantage to one group or political party gerrymanderingnoun[ U ]us/ˈdʒer·iˌmæn·də·rɪŋ/ Enlarging the district to dilute the Latino vote is a blatant example of gerrymandering. Examples of gerrymandergerrymander In contrast, if local boundaries are respected, levels of malapportionment increase, while gerrymandering becomes more difficult to accomplish. The conclusion that the boundaries were not gerrymandered is also supported by an analysis of how the guidelines worked in actual practice. The existing gerrymander created no districts in that range. In addition, even if districts are equal in size, they can be gerrymandered to benefit a particular party or candidate. A second set of variables tests the hypothesis that boundaries were gerrymandered in favor of certain incumbents. Perhaps these boundaries are themselves gerrymandered, or could be gerrymandered. I have argued that these guidelines also made it difficult to gerrymander district boundaries. These gerrymandered hypotheses are so bizarre that one is justified in assigning them a zero probability. These puzzles involve concepts that seem bizarre and gerrymandered. An additional concern is the finding that gerrymandered plans are often not as effective as they were designed to be. The results of the first election, however, suggest that these gerrymandering efforts were of little consequence. For example, party leaders can gerrymander their opponents by 'packing' them into a few districts, leaving their own supporters with comfortable majorities in most of the other districts. Perhaps they are born with a natural proclivity to gerrymandered concepts, in the sense that they take explanations in terms of them to be simple and satisfactory. If districts are drawn with an absolute and rigid requirement of population equality, then other redistricting criteria must be ignored and opportunities to gerrymander district boundaries increase. We have had a lot of words, "sordid", "cheat", "fraudulent", "chicanery", "gerrymander", "sham", "tricksters", and "nincompoop". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of gerrymander These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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