It is used to distribute federal money to states and cities based on population, and to redraw Congressional districts -- determining how many seats in the House that growing states will pick up at the expense of states with relatively stagnant populations.
And in most states, these legislatures would be responsible for redrawing congressional boundaries based on the 2010 U.S. Census.
Gerrymandering: The once-a-decade process of redrawing political maps based on the census has created an increasingly partisan and polarized atmosphere in Sacramento, as incumbents handcrafted districts that enabled the election of the most ideologically extreme candidates in both parties.
Every 10 years, based on new U.S. Census data, states redraw their legislative and congressional districts.
"What's worse is that the government are shamelessly taking this as an opportunity to redraw constituency boundaries based on an electorate that is far lower than it should be," she said.
When an SVG image is resized by a Web browser to fit a particular screen, it redraws the graphic based on the same data, scaled up or down as needed.
Republicans, on the other hand, maintained they redrew the map based on partisan reasons alone, and in compliance with the Voting Rights Act.
The updated map of B. juncea based on IP markers was used to redraw the QTL map of Ramchiary et al. For QTL map alignment, the homoeologous A, B, and C subgenome groups of Brassica species defined by Panjabi et al. were used.
In his dissent, Smith found that the 2011 redrawing was properly based on political, not racial, considerations, and he said the Obama administration had overstepped its bounds.
In both counties the new legislatures will redraw their district lines, based on the 2000 census, a process invariably affected by partisan pressures.
