jerrymander
noun
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The act of gerrymandering.
Example: By this iniquitous practice, which is known as the gerrymander, the party in a minority in each State is allowed to get only about one-half or one-quarter of its proper share of representation.
A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.
Example: Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across 4 counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.
verb
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To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
(by extension) To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.
Example: The superintendent helped gerrymander the school district lines in order to keep the children of the wealthy gated community in the better school all the way across town.