jerrymandering

Lobbyists fund the party: the parties then use jerrymandering as an excuse not to follow the ideas of the Constitution in having one district for every thirty thousand people.

Lobbying for Your Health: Strange bedfellows 2010

I agree - that's what I was clumsily suggesting by demographic jerrymandering.

Gollum Brown Saved From Drowning by BBC Newmania 2007

Between the jerrymandering from the census and the ACORN type organizations fraudulent registration practices, there will soon be no districts with conservative numbers capable of electing a dog catcher.

How Obama Intends to Control the Census - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009

The Democrats have total ability to abuse of census manipulation, engage in jerrymandering, and shake down the vast swaths of the economy they now hold power over for a near-unlimited amount of campaign funding.

Bad news for Obama! Ann Althouse 2009

Republicans and Democrats divvy up the Congressional Districts by jerrymandering, and the Democrats come more and more under the sway of the same corporate donors as the Republicans.

Jane Smiley: Is There Something Wrong with the System? 2008

The problem is jerrymandering of districts, and the way elections are financed.

Think Progress » How to fix Congress. 2006

So anyhow when I got back they were at it dingdong, John Wyse saying it was Bloom gave the ideas for Sinn Fein to Griffith to put in his paper all kinds of jerrymandering, packed juries and swindling the taxes off of the government and appointing consuls all over the world to walk about selling Irish industries.

Ulysses 2003

We believe that this apparently illogical proposal is no more than a piece of jerrymandering by the National Party.

PROPOSED NORTHERN BOUNDARY FOR WESTERN CAPE 1993

So anyhow when I got back they were at it dingdong, John Wyse saying it was Bloom gave the ideas for Sinn Fein to Griffith to put in his paper all kinds of jerrymandering, packed juries and swindling the taxes off of the government and appointing consuls all over the world to walk about selling Irish industries.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

It consisted in the concentration of colossal political funds in the private and irresponsible power of the politicians, collected by the sale of peerages and more important things, and expended on the jerrymandering of the enormously expensive elections.

A Short History of England 1905