Using a different strategy, individual incumbents sometimes seek to influence the apportionment process to give themselves districts with no substantial opposition.
Prior to its 1962 decision in Baker v. Carr, the Court had declined to intervene in the apportionment process, so Southern (and some other) states drew district lines that discriminated against minorities in egregious ways.
For the seventh consecutive decade, Texas will gain seats in the United States House of Representatives after the decennial apportionment process — four seats this time, bringing the state's total to 36.
Constitutional or electoral malapportionment must not be confused with gerrymandering a form of arbitrary districting used to benefit the party that at a given time controls the apportionment process.
Its thin population is only slightly closer to a cross-section of Americans than that of Auckland or Bruges, and the caucuses themselves are a sort of carpet-swapping process of preferential apportionment that falls ludicrously short of the one-person, one-vote ideal.
Finally, we evaluated the size and significance of the additional variability introduced to the PM mortality, time-series analysis by variations in the source apportionment process across groups and methods, consistent with the primary goal of this workshop.
An alternative approach, therefore, would be to conduct a sensitivity analysis of source-apportionment results, to mathematically identify and quantify the effect of each species on the apportionment process source-indicative tracers for a given local source (Marmur et al. 2006, 2007).
In an opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which was joined in full by six Justices, the Court approved a voting-apportionment process — currently used by every state — that requires all legislative districts to have an equal number of people.
Legislative apportionment, also called legislative delimitation, process by which representation is distributed among the constituencies of a representative assembly.
There has to be accountability over which team has undertaken what element of work in the research and development process, and in doing so there has to be an apportionment of the overall savings.
