Sentence examples for draw a district from inspiring English sources
Now, Gov. Rick Perry and others would like to draw a district he can't win.
"If the court says you can't draw a district based predominantly on race," Dr. Lichtman said, "and in America, we know that of course race is a fundamental aspect of life, correlated with many other features of life, then you have to do some mental gymnastics to get around that".
When your state officials draw a district that looks like the capital letter "G" (with serifs) then you probably are gerrymandered.
With 27 congressional districts, one might expect a fair plan in a battleground state to have 13.5 Democratic majority districts, or 13 or 14 such districts since it would be difficult to draw a district with an exact tie.
After the legislative deadlock, a group of Democrats, both black and white, took the case to a state trial court, which drew a district favoring Mr. Shows.
Mr. Chambliss and Mr. Perdue had more than geography in common: Mr. Perdue, a former State Senate majority leader who left the Democratic Party in protest four years ago, led the opposition to reapportionment at the state level, after Mr. Barnes and state Democrats drew a district map that looked like a plate of spaghetti.
In Travis County, the minority populations are too scattered to draw a Congressional district protected by the Voting Rights Act.
Instead, the court focused mainly on whether a lower-court state judge elected in one county has the authority to draw a Congressional district map for the entire state.
(California folks will know this is a somewhat hyperbolic example: it'd be VERY difficult to draw a competitive district for Pelosi to run in, but the point holds for many others in the delegation).
In the wake of the ruling, it is possible that state officials will elect to draw a congressional district map that is fair, legal and reflects the state's changing demographics.
One disagreement was over how to draw a new Congressional district in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
