gerrymanderer
Boundary-drawing schemer
A gerrymanderer is someone who manipulates electoral district boundaries to favor a particular party or group.
The practice—gerrymandering—involves drawing oddly shaped districts to concentrate or dilute voting blocs: The gerrymanderers carved up the city to ensure safe seats for incumbents.
Division into shares
- boundariesLines marking separation
- censusOfficial population count
- demographicsStatistical population characteristics
- districtsDefined administrative regions
mapping · reapportionment · representation · constituencies · jurisdictions · redraw · realignment · cartography
Tactics discouraging ballot access
- dilutionReduction in concentration
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- underrepresentationInsufficient proportional presence
- inequityUnfair distribution or treatment
discrimination · exclusion · silencing · disempowerment · minority · unfairness · injustice · undemocratic
Group within group
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- democratAdvocate for popular rule
- republicanAdvocate against hereditary rule
- incumbentCurrent position holder
loyalist · conservative · liberal · leftist · rightist · bloc · caucus · whip
Crafty and calculating
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- craftyCleverly deceptive
- connivingSecretly planning wrongdoing
strategic · tactical · maneuvering · rigging · distortion · skewing · engineering · exploitation
Violating fundamental law
- lawsuitCivil court proceeding
- challengeTest of ability
- Supreme CourtNation's top tribunal
- rulingFormal legal determination
precedent · judicial review · litigation · reform · oversight · regulation · Voting Rights Act · civil rights
apportionment
Division into shares
- boundariesLines marking separation
- censusOfficial population count
- demographicsStatistical population characteristics
districts · mapping · reapportionment · representation · constituencies · jurisdictions · redraw · realignment · cartography · precincts
voter suppression
Tactics discouraging ballot access
- dilutionReduction in concentration
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- underrepresentationInsufficient proportional presence
inequity · discrimination · exclusion · silencing · disempowerment · minority · unfairness · injustice · undemocratic · voiceless
faction
Group within group
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- democratAdvocate for popular rule
- republicanAdvocate against hereditary rule
incumbent · loyalist · conservative · liberal · leftist · rightist · bloc · caucus · whip · party
scheming
Crafty and calculating
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- craftyCleverly deceptive
conniving · strategic · tactical · maneuvering · rigging · distortion · skewing · engineering · exploitation · deception
unconstitutional
Violating fundamental law
- lawsuitCivil court proceeding
- challengeTest of ability
- Supreme CourtNation's top tribunal
ruling · precedent · judicial review · litigation · reform · oversight · regulation · Voting Rights Act · civil rights · plaintiff
- racial gerrymanderingManipulating boundaries by ethnicity
gerrymander, gerrymandering, gerrymanders, gerrymandered, gerrymanderers