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What refers to the way in which states redraw election districts based on the changing number of people in them?
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Gerrymandering is the term for realigning districts based upon population figures
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What time do you use a political map?
Most people use political maps during elections. Political maps help establish voting districts and allow people to determine who they can vote for in the election.
How does the US census affect the numbers of members each state has in the House of Representatives?
Based on the census, we find out how many people are living where, which determines where we draw the congressional districts. Based the number of people living there, we may have to decrease or increase the number of districts within a state.
How are people elected in the UK?
Members of Parliament are elected through a district system, on the basis of winner-takes-all. The UK is divided into 326 districts and boroughs for election purposes.
Did gerrymandering allow people to vote in any state?
No- gerrymandering is the practice of drawing up the boundaries of legislative districts in odd ways in order to favor the election of certain candidates.
The primary election process is really just a way of reducing the number of people who will run in the general election?
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The official turnout for an election is calculated by the divided by the number of people of eligible voting age.?
When calculating voter turnout, you would use the number of actual votes that were cast divided by the number of eligible voters. In most cases, eligible voters only includes people who have registered to vote.
Why did the free-soil settlers in Kansas protest the first territorial election?
In the first election in Kansas, a large number of people from Missouri rode across the state line and cast votes in Kansas. People not eligible to vote, voted in the election.
What did the US Supreme Court rule Congressional districts must have an equal number of?
Congressional districts must have nearly the same number of residents. This can't be exact because districts are reapportioned after the census every ten years.
Which of the following is the best definition of gerrymander?
A gerrymander is an oddly shaped district design to increase the voting strength of a particular party. The name comes from salamander-shaped districts drawn up the influence of one Elbridge Gerry , a governor of Massachusetts. As a verb it means to draw up gerrymander districts. Gerrymandering tends to occur after each census which changes the number of Congressional districts in a state. States also need to change their own legislative distrcts from to time to time due to shifts in population and the new districts may be gerrymandered to help the party in power. The idea is to study past voting records and create as many districts as possible with a slight but solid majority for the controling party. It may be necessary to have some "lost" districts to which as many opposing voters as possible are placed.
What is to redistrict?
A political unit such as a state is divided into districts for the purpose of electing representatives to a legislative body. If the basis of election is population, with equal number of people represented by each elected member, the boundaries of the district must be changed after each census if the population changes. This is called redistricting (drawing new district boundaries).
How are state representatives chosen?
Through an Electoral process. Voters in each Representative's district vote for their preferred candidate. There are 435 representatives apportioned between each state according to population every 10 years. The constitution says no more than one rep. for every 30,000 people, but with our population being so big, we had to limit the number of reps, so now they each represent around 650,000 people.
What is redstricting?
People move around. When people move, some areas gain population, some areas lose population. Once every 10 years in the United States, the government takes a census, or counts the people. Each district that sends a representative to congress has to be changed so all the districts in the state will have the same number of people. When the districts are changed so that all the districts become the same size after a census, that is called redistricting.
