The sketch is actually redrawing the circle something like 60 times per second, but you can't see it because it's just redrawing the same stupid circle in the same place.
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On Tuesday, the court established a March 15, 2017, deadline for redrawing the map — and ruled that legislators in districts affected by the redrawing stand for re-election next fall.
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One party can manipulate democracy simply by redrawing district lines.
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With these portraits, Douglass was redrawing people's unconscious mental maps.
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Next, he showed me a face that he kept redrawing.
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This radical redrawing has perplexed and angered a few Polynesians.
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The redrawing holds ramifications for the midterm elections this fall.
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He has frequently advised states on redrawing their congressional maps.
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But shifting power isn't as simple as just redrawing the map.
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We believe that calls for redrawing national borders could be destabilizing.
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The first simply requires redrawing the lines that have been eroded.
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The United States is redrawing the minerals map of the world.
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Tough, said the peacemakers: redrawing borders would only lead to more conflict.
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This would lead to a "final redrawing" of the continent's rail map.
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The redrawing of Pennsylvania's congressional districts in 2011 illustrates the Republicans' problem.
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Belgrade and Pristina have both raised the idea of redrawing their border.
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But redrawing the line to separate the harmless and atrocious might help.
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Amendment Y: An "affirmative" vote supports redrawing maps for Colorado's congressional districts.
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The task of redrawing a state's congressional districts usually falls to the legislature.
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CLOCK TICKING The United States is redrawing the minerals map of the world.
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He also advocated the redrawing of electoral districts according to latest census figures.
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Republican legislators only considered partisanship, not race, in redrawing districts held by Reps.
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And he begins anew, redrawing and erasing them, minute by surprisingly slow minute.
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They might even keep redrawing lines every few years to keep their advantage.
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Big Hollywood players, fearing the next takedown, are redrawing contracts and purging feeds.
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Redrawing electoral maps for political benefits is as old as the republic itself.
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She was quite slow, rubbing out a lot and redrawing to get it right.
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That panel would be responsible for redrawing the state's congressional districts every 10 years.
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But weeks later, the Supreme Court, along ideological lines, blocked the lower court's redrawing.
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These districts typically go about this by redrawing attendance boundaries or creating magnet schools.
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When it comes to actually redrawing the zone lines, though, the city has dithered.
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The team of designers has been redrawing individual subway maps and then piecing them together.
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But he shied away from a radical redrawing of the boundaries of a sprawling group.
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Following the 22019 redrawing of legislative districts, Republicans successfully litigated Democratic maps that split counties.
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I was reconceiving, or redrawing, the contemporary nude model from my own point of view.
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The vast majority of states in America leave redrawing congressional districts to their state legislatures.
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First, a plaintiff must show that race was a predominant factor in the map's redrawing.
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State legislatures will also be in charge of redrawing congressional districts after the 2020 census.
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Already before the court is a challenge to Wisconsin's politically based redrawing of legislative districts.
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And after the census in 2020 state legislatures will draw up plans for redrawing congressional districts.
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But almost everyone missed the bigger, more consequential story: the redrawing of the American political map.
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As with all of Matsubara's best art, it suggests a redrawing of the contours of sensation.
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All these elections will also affect the redrawing of congressional district boundaries after the 2020 census.
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That's because state legislatures play an outsize role in redrawing district maps for the US House.
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At the same time, Mr. Silverman began redrawing what he said was a convoluted organizational chart.
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The practice of redrawing the boundaries of voting districts is almost as old as the nation.
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Putin promptly sent soldiers without insignia to take over Crimea, redrawing the borders of continental Europe.
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During the war, Iran embedded itself in Syria, redrawing the strategic map of the Middle East.
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German diplomats warn that redrawing boundaries in a region still reeling from war would court disaster.
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Computer animation is after all just changing or redrawing something within a looping section of code.
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By strategically redrawing district boundaries, gerrymanderers can engineer voting distributions to create an uneven electoral playing field.
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The measure aims to mitigate burnout and stress by redrawing a clearer line between work and home.
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She recommends changing the system, for example by redrawing school districts so that they are more equal.
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Virginia State Board of Elections, regarding the 2011 redrawing of the states' House of Delegates district lines.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Redrawing My 5th Grade Sketchbook is available via Fudge Factory Comics.
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If you pulled all the stitches out you could see all the redrawing atop the first version.
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In 2013, state lawmakers voted, instead of redrawing the 2011 maps, to simply adopt the interim ones.
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Moreover, these new governors will also preside over the redrawing of congressional maps around the 2020 Census.
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More importantly, with control of the House and Senate, Democrats will control redrawing of election district lines.
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"Changes in renters' living habits are literally redrawing floor plans," wrote Nadia Balint, senior marketing writer for RENTCafe.
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"The referendum does not mean independence will happen tomorrow, nor are we redrawing borders," he said in Erbil.
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On Saturday, Parliament signed off on a redrawing of voting districts, prompting cries of gerrymandering from opposition parties.
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Amendment Z: An "affirmative" vote supports redrawing maps for Colorado's state House of Representatives and state Senate districts.
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Germany and other European Union states immediately warned that redrawing borders along ethnic lines would be courting disaster.
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The big picture: State legislatures will refer to the newest census data in redrawing congressional districts next year.
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Rather, it's about preventing lawmakers from redrawing district borders to keep power until the next time redistricting happens.
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Hemon suggested growing U.S. social and political rifts could summon separatist forces eventually capable of redrawing America's political map.
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A redrawing of its borders in 2012 brought in Washington Heights, a Dominican stronghold, and parts of the Bronx.
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But with the Brexit vote, the Nissan factory could become a lesson in the pitfalls of redrawing the map.
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Conversations around the term often focus on either erasing or redrawing the boundary between the classical and the popular.
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Officials in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, have talked about different options for redrawing the maps to build new homes.
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In the process, it is expanding a network of proxies, and redrawing the strategic map of the Middle East.
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Redrawing district maps is typically done on a computer by an expert in consultation with a few key legislators.
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To do that, the department is asking the council to approve redrawing the zone lines of five other schools.
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The State Department statement cited Israeli authorities' retroactive authorization of nearby settlements and the redrawing of local settlement boundaries.
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That means the state Supreme Court will likely handle redrawing new congressional lines and it would have until Feb.
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In the redrawing of districts following the 2010 census, Republicans created incredibly safe, ideologically pure districts with fewer dissenters.
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It would give Democrats a hand in redrawing electoral maps that currently give Republicans 10 out of 20173 House seats.
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In a handful of key states, including Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Ohio, Republicans went to work redrawing districts.
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"The referendum does not mean independence will happen tomorrow, nor are we redrawing borders," he said in Erbil on Monday.
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Lebanon's delicate, pluralistic balance of power between faith groups could be toppled in a complete redrawing of the demographic map.
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The Department of Education had first proposed simply redrawing zones to send more children from P.S. 199 to P.S. 191.
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Two years later, the board considered redrawing school zones to bolster racial and economic equity, but worried about white flight.
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Whitford, which could reconfigure American elections by deciding whether gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing districts for political gain, is unconstitutional.
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Johnson is now redrawing withdrawal agreement bill to make it illegal for parliament to extend the transition period beyond then.
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But the process of redrawing is about to start all over again, and the House of Delegates wields the pen.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965, meanwhile, requires states to consider the impact on racial minority representation when redrawing districts.
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A redrawing of the map before the midterms would have had significant implications on the balance of power in the House.
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Both the EU and America had previously rejected the redrawing of borders on ethnic grounds, believing it would destabilise the region.
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One theory is that Mr Johnson is constantly redrawing his "red lines" in order to force Mrs May to sack him.
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There is much to be said for redrawing the boundaries of intellectual property so that incumbents can be more readily challenged.
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Parliament is also expected to approve a periodic redrawing of electoral boundaries, which critics say would also favor the ruling coalition.
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The redrawing of Britain's parliamentary map, the biggest such exercise since Ireland became independent in 503, is a long time coming.
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People in Pennsylvania might be confused about their new polling places after a massive new redrawing of the state's electoral map.
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Also, no matter the eventual solution for the adjacent catchment school's overcrowding (redrawing lines, lotteries, etc.), our school will be impacted.
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In each one of those five states, the legislature will be tasked with redrawing the congressional (and legislative) lines in 2021.
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Gerrymandering goes back to an 1812 political cartoon mocking the redrawing of Massachusetts state senate election districts under Governor Elbridge Gerry.
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Why it matters: The ruling has raised the possibility of a court-ordered redrawing of new districts before the November elections.
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During the war, Iran embedded itself in Syria through its fighters and proxies, redrawing the strategic map of the Middle East.
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Republicans have also controlled the redrawing of political maps in some states, making it more difficult for Democrats to win elections.
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Still, in many other states, legislatures are in charge of redrawing the maps, which makes the process much more explicitly partisan.
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The Republican state legislature in charge of redrawing the map could leave the seat alone and hope Meehan can pull through.
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Also in politics, the Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in a case about redrawing congressional districts in Texas.
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While this may merely look like redrawing lines on an organization chart, employees are worried there's a political agenda lurking beneath.
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Partisan gerrymandering, the process of redrawing state and congressional districts to benefit a particular political party, isn't new to the state.
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I haven't gotten this to work consistently, but it's a minor speed bump because redrawing the lines only takes a few seconds.
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You can resize the windows (unlike Android apps on ChromeOS), but the redrawing of the window contents is sometimes a little slow.
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Hewing to the court's words while subverting their spirit, Republican state lawmakers set to redrawing the map with no input from Democrats.
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At the same time, there have been worries about Trump's presidential campaign pledges on redrawing trade deals to win back U.S. jobs.
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Sometimes drawing and redrawing a traumatic experience can prolong the pain of it for years, as Green was quick to point out.
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Tough issues are outstanding, such as effective co-governance, redrawing territorial boundaries and how security concerns of each side can be safeguarded.
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Democrats are feeling hopeful after two developments Tuesday: the redrawing of Pennsylvania's congressional map and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's record fundraising.
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Why it matters: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that Pennsylvania's high court could move forward in redrawing the map.
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In a hasty redrawing of the map, the Americans and the Soviets divided the Korean Peninsula; in effect, each would control half.
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But perhaps the most significant factor is the redrawing of House districts — largely by GOP-led state legislatures — following the 2010 Census.
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So has one member of the National Election Commission, the body tasked with redrawing voter registration lists ahead of the next elections.
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Adaptable to Congress by redrawing districts to elect multiple House members with ranked choice voting in each — as introduced by U.S. Rep.
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There are also unsettled issues on redrawing the boundaries between the two sides, settling property disputes and on how to co-govern.
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In redrawing a new map, rather than focus on race, they'd make an even more GOP-favored map, by focusing on partisanship.
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A three-judge federal court has already held that North Carolina did exactly that, violating the Constitution in redrawing its congressional districts.
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After the study had begun, Kingsley administrators began the process of redrawing boundaries for the district's high schools to balance attendance numbers.
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In addition, redrawing the boundary would be a quick solution to reaching the collective objectives of the United States, NATO and Afghanistan.
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Pennsylvania's electoral composition was reformed earlier this year following a court decision that mandated a redrawing of the state's congressional districting map.
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TO PROTEST the redrawing of municipal boundaries earlier this year, residents in a poor part of Limpopo province set fire to their schools.
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Marko Djuric, the Serbian government's top official for Kosovo policy, says Serbia wants to broaden the talks to other issues, including redrawing borders.
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They are gathered in a windowless meeting room in Kuala Lumpur's decrepit centre to bemoan the Election Commission's (EC) redrawing of constituency boundaries.
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Mike Noel to the redrawing of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument's border, according to a letter from the office summarizing the findings.
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He said the record failed to prove that its state legislature, redrawing districts in 2013, had acted in bad faith or intentionally discriminated.
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But the North Carolina primaries have already happened, making the prospect of redrawing districts (or adding another election to the calendar) seem drastic.
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The details: If passed, the reform measure would amend Michigan's constitution to place a bipartisan independent redistricting commission in charge of redrawing maps.
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Census data is important not just for redrawing political boundaries, but also for allocating billions of dollars of federal funding to the states.
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Transit officials are also looking at the possibility of redrawing bus routes to more accurately reflect demand, a process underway in Staten Island.
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Redrawing the monument's boundaries will open some of the massive coal deposits on the Kaiparowits Plateau, south of where we're hiking, to mining.
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This territorial redrawing was no mere afterthought of an atrocious world war — it cemented national self-determination as the basis for political sovereignty.
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Republicans in the North Carolina legislature denied that race was the predominant factor in redrawing the boundaries of the two districts under review.
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Redrawing the line, to merge FATA, Pakhtunkhwa and parts of Balochistan into Afghanistan could help to end the blood spilled in this region.
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For beyond trade, there is a host of other multinational agreements Trump has scuttled with the aim of redrawing them to America's advantage.
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With the court-mandated redrawing of the state's districts, the district represents Bucks and Montgomery counties in the southeast corner of the state.
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The US would be flat tapped out of forces and unable to deter anyone else from redrawing their local borders to their liking.
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If we cannot secure our own borders, how realistic is it that we can protect ourselves by redrawing the borders of Syria or Iraq?
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Roberts effectively gave state legislatures a green light to be as aggressive as they want in redrawing legislative maps to preserve their partisan advantage.
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This autumn, the Supreme Court will likely decide whether gerrymandering — the redrawing of district lines to favor one's political party — is legal or not.
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It was the first significant redrawing of the nutrition information on food labels since the federal government started requiring them in the early 1990s.
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The latest: The Virginia Supreme Court is reviewing a racially-charged case regarding the 2011 redrawing of the states' House of Delegates district lines.
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Minority Madhesis blocked border trade points with India for four months to demand the redrawing of provincial borders and a fair say in government.
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North Carolina lawmakers are accused of relying too heavily on race in drawing new districts as part of a 2011 redrawing of legislative lines.
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Per the ruling, the state legislature must immediately begin redrawing the district maps, to be approved by the court in the next two weeks.
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But after the historic redrawing of our map by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, I have just found the perfect ending for my film.
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But the day of fighting drew new attention to how deeply Iran has embedded itself in Syria, redrawing the strategic map of the region.
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A battle was won with last July's redrawing of the voting rights on the SQM board, effectively ending Julio Ponce's grip on board decisions.
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In 232, with control of the legislature, North Carolina Republicans accomplished this by redrawing the electoral maps, gerrymandering poor and black voters into irrelevance.
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Nor would it even be a desirable policy outcome: presidents constantly redrawing national monuments would make management impossible and historical conservation an uphill battle.
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State races in the next several years have additional importance because whichever party wins will be in charge of redrawing legislative maps in 2020.
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And it's not idealists who would truly be in charge of redrawing the lines should Democrats regain power in these states, but self-interested politicians.
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That's in large part due to the issue of gerrymandering, the act of redrawing legislative districts in individual states to benefit a particular political party.
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With just over five months until Brexit day, carmakers have triggered contingency plans such as moving shutdown periods, certifying models abroad and redrawing production schedules.
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Go deeper: Climate change is redrawing maps The world's oceans are warming far faster than thought How climate change puts our cultural heritage at risk
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This involves redrawing constituency boundaries to pack opposition voters into a few seats, while ruling-party supporters form a narrow majority in a larger number.
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And so they're both constantly redrawing the lines: This season, Murphy eagerly boarded the helicopter where Carrillo shoved two unhelpful Escobar associates off the side.
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This year's extraordinary presidential election is redrawing the political map, leaving experts debating whether the shift is a one-off or a more permanent change.
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Last year, the Supreme Court blocked a redrawing order for new maps ahead of this year's midterm as they consider an appeal from the state.
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Despite the wishes of some reformers, there will be no major shift to proportional representation anytime soon, there will be no redrawing of state lines.
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Mr. Duterte's latest success now paves the way for him to extend his tenure beyond the existing one-term limit by redrawing the system altogether.
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Wednesday's case was brought by a group of Republican voters in Maryland who say Democrats went too far in redrawing districts after the last census.
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The census, a decennial exercise mandated in the U.S. constitution, is the basis for redrawing state legislative districts and reapportioning the U.S. House of Representatives.
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But the campaign to defeat ISIS was, and is, primarily about redrawing the lines in Syria and Iraq, the scramble for resources, and ethnic loyalty.
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The 85033 races are critical to both parties because the governors who are elected could play a significant role in redrawing legislative boundaries after 2020.
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While creating a new nation would tear the United States asunder, redrawing state boundaries is nowhere near as unthinkable — or as dangerous — as some suggest.
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Because the state legislatures and governors in place in 2021 will be in charge of redrawing the congressional district maps after the 2020 US Census.
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The Final Amendment and its Constitution should propose, possibly, 22 states of about 15 million people each, redrawing boundaries around natural borders and cultural considerations.
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People call it the "8-mile mess" because it was subjected to so much gerrymandering, the practice of creatively redrawing congressional districts along partisan lines.
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This ends a long argument over redrawing Virginia's third congressional district without implying that incumbent lawmakers have the right to a fair shot at reelection.
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The redrawing of boundaries will lead to some large pro-opposition constituencies with more than 100,13 voters, while pro-government seats are much smaller, critics say.
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But Putin and Erdogan seemed to favor an outcome that does not involve redrawing international borders -- and that discourages separatist movements, something both countries have faced.
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Like Gill, the new case, Benisek v Lamone involves a state's majority party charged with redrawing district boundaries in light of data from the 2010 census.
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The longtime Democrat became a Republican when his future in the House was imperiled by a redrawing of his congressional district and demographic shifts favoring Republicans.
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The big picture: A redrawing has the potential to impact the balance of power in the House as Republicans are seeking to maintain control this fall.
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Mr. Hofeller also advised Pennsylvania Republicans in redrawing that state's House map in 2011, as well as Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the speaker of the House.
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The other effect, and the more significant one in the short term, would have cleared away potential legal obstacles to redrawing the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem.
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The restructuring of Hungary's election system, including a redrawing the electoral map, has helped him remain in power, even as his party has won fewer votes.
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Some right-wing Israeli lawmakers have called for redrawing Jerusalem's boundaries to remove Arab areas like Kufr Aqab while adding Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
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Labor unions shrank significantly in the state, and the Republicans pressed on with other parts of their agenda, including voter ID requirements and redrawing political maps.
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If the court decides against Texas, it could force a redrawing of the map that could have ramifications for the 35th District, now held by Rep.
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This case might lead to redrawing the congressional map before the midterms in a way more friendly to Democrats' efforts to make gains in the House.
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The Pennsylvania Republican has been rumored to be considering retirement from the Philadelphia-suburban area hit hard by a recent redrawing of the state's congressional districts.
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And perhaps of greater significance to Democrats in the state, a Republican legislative supermajority would have significant sway in redrawing district lines following the 2020 census.
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A general election must be held by August, but Najib is widely expected to call elections in a matter of days after the redrawing proposal is approved.
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Investigators also are reviewing Zinke's decision to block two tribes from opening a casino in Connecticut and his redrawing of boundaries to shrink a Utah national monument.
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"The ongoing Trade War is redrawing global supply chains, claiming casualties in the process," Julian Emanuel, chief equity and derivatives strategist at BTIG, said in a note.
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Although at this stage it's not clear what the reformed employment tests will look like, nor how its approach might end up redrawing the line for workers.
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But in their appeal to the Supreme Court, Pennsylvania officials argued the court exceeded its power in redrawing the maps, which they claimed now favored Democratic voters.
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He concluded in a 2015 study that a citizenship question would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" in redrawing electoral districts based on census data.
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Lower courts concluded that race was a predominant factor in the redrawing of these districts, without a compelling interest that would justify heavily taking race into account.
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And many state lawmakers elected in 2018 will still be in office in 2020, when the post-census redrawing of US congressional districts is set to begin.
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Public discontent grew so severe that calls went out on both sides of the river for a redrawing of the border to make the city whole again.
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In District 3, scars remain from a battle over redrawing school zones two years ago to increase diversity and reduce crowding at a group of elementary schools.
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Democratic victories in governor races, however, in Wisconsin, Kansas and Illinois will give the party crucial leverage in redrawing congressional and legislative districts after the 2020 census.
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In his dissent, Smith found that the 2011 redrawing was properly based on political, not racial, considerations, and he said the Obama administration had overstepped its bounds.
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That section had required nine southern states to obtain pre-clearance before making substantive changes to voting procedures, such as redrawing district lines or relocating polling places.
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Meantime, the perpetuation of Republican dominance at the state level through 2020 would grant the G.O.P. the upper hand in redrawing congressional districts after the next census.
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In redrawing Mr. Trump's executive order on travel from the Middle East, the administration had hoped to eliminate many of the vulnerabilities that doomed the first version.
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The new maps must be redrawn by September 18, lawmakers can't use data to try to draw a partisan advantage, and the redrawing process must be public.
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Shale producers have raised and spent billions of dollars to produce more oil and gas, ending decades of declining output and redrawing the global energy trade map.
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It is now redrawing the stake sale plans and as part of the effort it has hived off some of the loss-making airline's debt of $8.5 billion.
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Policymakers and the public could see the change as redrawing moral boundaries "when the limits become inconvenient for science," the authors warn, raising skepticism of any embryonic research.
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Race can be considered in redrawing boundaries of voting districts only in certain instances, such as when states are seeking to comply with the federal Voting Rights Act.
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A second wrong-headed notion is that redrawing the borders of Arab countries will create more stable states that match the ethnic and religious contours of the population.
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GOP voters said that in redrawing the district, the Democratic officials retaliated against them for their past votes in violation of the First Amendment's ban on viewpoint discrimination.
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Partisan gerrymandering in Maryland The justices will also rule on whether Democrats deliberately moved to eliminate a Republican congressional seat in their redrawing of the Maryland district map.
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But his district was transformed by the recent redrawing of the state's congressional districts after the state Supreme Court ruled that the prior GOP-crafted map was unconstitutional.
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It had also ordered the redrawing of lines ahead of this year's midterms, but the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the order while an appeal is prepared and considered.
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While it still puts redistricting in the hands of lawmakers, the measure would prevent one party from having overwhelming power over the redrawing and approval of electoral lines.
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Since 2013, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which manages the National Flood Insurance Program, has been in the process of redrawing the city's decades-old flood maps.
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The Supreme Court has also agreed to decide whether Maryland Democrats crossed a constitutional line by redrawing House districts to flip a Republican-held seat to Democratic control.
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It's rigged by politicians who try to keep themselves, and their party, in power by redrawing the geographical boundaries for legislative seats in the states and in Congress.
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In the 2015 election campaign, the defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, proposed redrawing Israel's borders to exclude Israeli Arab towns, pushing for their incorporation into a future Palestinian state.
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Worse still, a rising tide for Democrats in 2018 and 2020 could put the party in control of the redrawing of House district lines after the next census.
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Editorial The North Carolina legislature is hurriedly redrawing the lines of two congressional districts that had been gerrymandered along racial lines and ruled unconstitutional by a Federal District Court.
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The Supreme Court has declared the situation unconstitutional, but Mr. Abe's conservative governing party — which has strong support in the countryside — has dragged its feet on redrawing electoral districts.
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This means a decision will likely come by the end of June, and it raises the possibility of a court-ordered redrawing of new districts before the 2020 elections.
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The big picture: State lawmakers have gotten a lot more sophisticated and a lot more aggressive about redrawing their state's legislative districts to help their party stay in power.
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Holder, who was President Barack Obama's first attorney general, said he will instead continue his work to end gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing legislative districts for a political advantage.
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When it goes into this new mode, the browser reduces the activity from background tabs, slows down the page-redrawing frequency and makes changes to the video playback parameters.
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In 2012, the GOP controlled the redrawing process in 22 states that accounted for 224 seats, while Democrats drew maps in nine states that sent 56 members to Congress.
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"Houston really popularized this idea of starting with a clean sheet and redrawing the entire map," said Jon Orcutt, a spokesman for TransitCenter, a nonprofit research and advocacy group.
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The redrawing did not end with Congressional districts: The Republican legislature has also changed or created the district lines for state House members, county commissioners and city council members.
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It also allowed Mr. Bird to stick to a comfortably old-fashioned vision of the world, one that he is redrawing one baby superhero step at a time. video
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Critics accuse Najib - as they did Mahathir before him - of gerrymandering to tilt elections in his favor, and point to a recent redrawing of electoral boundaries as further evidence.
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The pitched battles in New York City over redrawing school boundaries and diversifying its selective high schools delivers a stunning reminder that integration can be a political third rail.
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Most significantly, she has spent years carefully distancing herself from the anti-Semitism that once defined the National Front, and notably redrawing the party's messaging to reject blatant racism.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously upheld a district court ruling in Arizona affirming the state's legislative districts, after accusations that a redrawing of the lines hurt Republicans' influence.
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With only 37 days until Britain leaves the EU, its biggest foreign and trade policy shift in more than 40 years, divisions over Brexit are redrawing the political landscape.
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The opposition and critics say they face an electoral system that favours the BN coalition, compounded by a redrawing of electoral boundaries that was fast-tracked in parliament in March.
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After redrawing district lines, Republican candidates won nine of the state's 13 U.S. House seats in 2012 — even though Democratic candidates statewide won 2023,000 more votes than did Republican candidates.
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First, the redrawing of district maps following the 28503 Census, while solidifying scores of Democrats in heavily blue districts, leaned heavily in favor of Republicans in terms of pure numbers.
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The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Grand Rapids, seeks to knock down Proposition 2, which shifted responsibility for redrawing district boundaries from the state legislature to a citizen commission.
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Until this year, it was considered solidly red, thanks in part to a redrawing of its boundaries by Republicans in 2012, which pushed thousands of Democratic voters into another district.
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In Wednesday's arguments, the majority of the justices appeared to agree that Maryland officials had created an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in redrawing its 28503th Congressional District after the 22019 Census.
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Brady's Philadelphia-based district is overwhelmingly Democratic -- though Pennsylvania lawmakers are currently redrawing the congressional district lines after the state Supreme Court ruled that they'd been drawn to favor Republicans.
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The video, which is more than two minutes long, accuses Aron Wieder, a prominent Hasidic legislator, and his "bloc" of "plotting a takeover" of the county by redrawing voting districts.
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Efforts to block it have become a crucial political issue as the next census — and the redrawing of political boundaries in 2021 that will use fresh census data — draws near.
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Efforts to block it have become a crucial political issue as the next census — and the redrawing of political boundaries in 2021 that will use fresh census data — draws near.
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The video, which is more than two minutes long, accuses Aron Wieder, a prominent Hasidic legislator, and his "bloc" of "plotting a takeover" of the county by redrawing voting districts.
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Those paying attention to the NFIP have floated many ideas about how to overhaul it: redrawing maps, raising rates to reflect actual risks, allowing private insurers to develop cost-effective policies.
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A Democratic governor could have a huge impact on redrawing the state's congressional maps and pushing forward on Medicaid expansion, and Democrat Andrew Gillum is energizing Florida's young and minority voters.
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Some blame gerrymandering—the redrawing of boundaries for electoral gain—and indeed Republicans won 51% of votes in the 2014 elections, though they translated that advantage to 57% of House seats.
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In November voters in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri and Utah will be able to vote for reforms that either make redrawing districts a bipartisan business or outsource it to non-partisan commissions.
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As Halley Potter of the Century Foundation, a think-tank, says, countervailing initiatives by individual districts—redrawing catchment zones, rejigging admission criteria, opening magnet schools—have not offset the overall trend.
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Earlier this week other carmakers in Britain including BMW, McLaren and Honda said they had triggered some contingency plans, such as certifying models the EU, redrawing production schedules and stockpiling parts.
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A law ensuring that South Sudan's oil-producing regions and communities received two and three percent of its oil revenue respectively had triggered a redrawing of provincial boundaries and ethnic conflict.
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Why it matters: This Republican PAC is an answer attempts from Barack Obama and others to win back state legislatures and, ultimately, control the redrawing of the electoral map in 2020.
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Hofeller conducted a 2015 unpublished study that found asking about citizenship would help Republicans and non-Hispanic whites when it comes to redrawing congressional districts, but hurts Hispanic communities and Democrats.
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At Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan, he and his team are putting that into action, redrawing the lines of traditional healthcare to help with social needs like food insecurity.
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"It would be a process of making the design twice to scale, then shifting the tracing paper, and redrawing it on another layered piece to create the glitch effect," he explains.
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That process at times involves revisions: moving the eyes closer together or farther apart, raising or lowering an ear, or sometimes redrawing a hand several times until I'm happy with it.
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But with its sweeping judgment, the Supreme Court also sent a signal to other states — telling them they have to be much more careful in redrawing their congressional and legislative districts.
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The redrawing of Maryland's House map by Democrats was also baldly political, ousting a 22016-year Republican incumbent by infusing the rural 26th District with tens of thousands of urban Democrats.
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Now, after a year in which hurricanes ravaged Houston and the Caribbean, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is substantially redrawing New York's flood maps for the first time in three decades.
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But elected officials and political strategists had been preparing for the possibility of a hasty redrawing of the congressional map and an upending of carefully laid plans for the midterm campaigns.
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In the 2010 redistricting — the once-in-a-decade process of redrawing electoral maps — a significant degree of Republican gerrymandering gave the party an enduring advantage in the House of Representatives.
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There's also the question of battery life — redrawing the content on the display more frequently may offer smoother animations and interactions, but it comes at the cost of drawing more power.
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"This is a wider issue about reframing the narrative and redrawing the lines of political debate in Britain," said Meera Selva, director of the Reuters Journalism Fellowship Program at Oxford University.
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"We see that climate change is literally redrawing the lines on the map, and revealing the threats that our world faces at every level," said Dawn Wright, the company's chief scientist.
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A second dissent, by Justice Sallie Updyke Mundy, endorsed Justice Saylor's views, and added a warning that involving the State Supreme Court in redrawing the map could raise federal constitutional questions.
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And a landmark gerrymandering lawsuit that resulted in a redrawing of the state's congressional map has changed the lay of the land for Democrats, the party women are likelier to represent.
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Banning unintentional gerrymandering as well would lead to a more radical redrawing of district maps, one that "could potentially make a very big change to the membership of the House," McGhee said.
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Earlier this week other carmakers in Britain including BMW, McLaren and Honda said they had triggered some contingency plans, such as certifying models in the EU, redrawing production schedules and stockpiling parts.
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With lawmakers and the governor at loggerheads, the court will probably put Plan B in motion, redrawing the map with help from a so-called special master, Nathaniel Persily of Stanford University.
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As in the EU at large, lessening the relevance of national borders would seem wiser than redrawing them and, in the words of one senior EU official, "opening the gates to hell".
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Separately, to suggest that the redrawing of electoral boundaries to account for population growth is somehow "rigging the system" reveals your double standards for Western countries and the rest of the world.
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Instead of addressing working-class grievances, fascistic regimes offer their followers a different form of reward by redrawing the lines of inclusion and exclusion, mass-producing myth and arms in equal measure.
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The only surefire way that Democrats can guarantee they have a voice in the state-by-state redrawing of congressional lines is to win governor races (and state legislative control) in November.
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Take Yourself Out of the Equation 52 Places to Go in 2018 White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness Related Article At Snapchat, Redrawing the Bounds of Reality Drake vs.
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To the Editor: If you truly want to elect a House of Representatives that fairly and accurately reflects the wishes of voters, stop redrawing district lines or developing convoluted multi-member constituencies.
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In House races, the Democrats overcame healthy economic growth – traditionally a positive factor for the party in power – and the GOP's success in recent years redrawing voting districts to the party's benefit.
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Belgrade has raised the idea of settling a dispute that has hindered both Serbia's and Kosovo's ambitions to join the European Union by redrawing the border between the country along ethnic lines.
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Ohio last month became the eighth state to turn to some form of a separate commission for redrawing U.S. House of Representatives districts after the national census each decade to squelch gerrymandering.
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But after redrawing legislative boundaries in just two weeks in what even Democrats have acknowledged was a more transparent process, they are unlikely to challenge the new ruling before the state Supreme Court.
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From yoga guru Jessamyn Stanley to model Tess Holliday, the movement is redrawing the boundaries of what a "beautiful body" is, looks, or feels like (spoiler: it's whatever you want it to be).
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An American presidency with questions about the country's economic relationship with the world is not quite the same as the U.K. undertaking a two-year process of redrawing its trade links with Europe.
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With lawmakers and the governor at loggerheads, the court will probably put its plan B in motion: redrawing the map with help from a so-called special master, Nathaniel Persily of Stanford University.
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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a lower court must reconsider whether Republican political leaders packed black voters into legislative districts to diminish their voting power when redrawing Virginia's electoral map in 2011.
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The opposition and critics say they are also faced with an electoral system that favors the BN coalition, compounded by a redrawing of electoral boundaries that was fast-tracked in parliament in March.
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In response, a Malaysian government spokesperson told CNBC that the redrawing of electoral boundaries to account for population growth is a "perfectly normal practice" that has been applied in democracies around the world.
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Mary Gay Scanlon won a 10-way Democratic primary in southeastern Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District, which is likely to flip to Democrats following a court-ordered redrawing of the state's congressional district boundaries.
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The justices' ruling, issued in several unsigned orders, mean that the states don't have to immediately start redrawing the maps, after the lower courts found that current district maps constituted a partisan gerrymander.
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court's redrawing of four North Carolina state legislative districts in a racial gerrymandering case that challenged maps drawn by Republicans earlier this decade.
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To others, it is proof the Republican-dominated Legislature weakened Hispanic voting strength, through its redrawing of political district maps and its voter ID law, which required government-issued ID at the polls.
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Experts said that even if the Supreme Court chooses to limit partisan gerrymandering, federal judges are unlikely to force a redrawing of overly partisan maps in the middle of high-stakes midterm races.
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This means that Apple has joined Google, Yandex and some other technology companies in redrawing Ukraine's borders to satisfy Moscow's territorial claims, at least for customers viewing their maps on devices inside Russia.
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Mr. Bush cited "new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers," and said they should be taken into consideration in redrawing the borders between Israel and the West Bank.
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The 28500 election will be the most impactful election since 6900 — the last time Americans elected not only a president but also governors and legislators responsible for the decennial redrawing of legislative maps.
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During both Democratic and Republican administrations, Justice Department lawyers used Section 5 to block localities from redrawing district lines or closing polling places — and to block strict voter-ID laws from taking effect.
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Redrawing the Maps A federal court is expected to rule soon on whether Texas intentionally discriminated against minorities and failed to draw enough minority-majority districts when it adopted its current congressional map.
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The North Carolina case focuses on a 2016 map adopted after a court found that Republican legislators unlawfully used race as a factor when redrawing certain U.S. House districts after the 2010 census.
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Redrawing the electoral map, he might also attract votes from left-leaning parties hostile to globalisation and happy with hefty doses of state intervention: a Pensioner's Union, perhaps, and an Agrarian and Industrial League.
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The US Department of the Interior has finalized plans to allow drilling, mining, and grazing in national monuments in southern Utah — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — by redrawing the boundaries of the monuments.
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The two countries have hit each other with tit-for-tariffs on goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars in sectors from automobiles to agriculture and energy, stymying trade and redrawing global supply chains.
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The state Democratic Party and a group of North Carolina voters filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that Republican leaders violated the state constitution by redrawing the legislative maps to entrench their own power.
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A Pennsylvania Republican is calling for the impeachment of the justices on the state Supreme Court who ruled in favor of a redrawing of the state's congressional map ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
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Their dilemma illustrates the wider predicament in which Sunni Arabs find themselves in the new order emerging from the conflict, which has displaced millions and is redrawing internal boundaries in both Iraq and Syria.
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In December, to the surprise of his hosts, Mr. Erdogan used the occasion of the first visit to Greece by a Turkish president in 2000 years to call for a redrawing of the border.
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Redrawing the Durand Line and merging the territory into Afghanistan would give the country access to international waters, providing a win from a logistical and economic perspective for the United States, NATO and Afghanistan.
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In the Maryland case, Republican voters accused Democratic legislators of violating their free speech rights under the Constitution's First Amendment by redrawing boundaries of one particular U.S. House district to hinder Republican chances of winning.
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It's also a more complex story than is usually suggested: Gerrymandering, or the partisan redrawing of district lines — a frequent object of complaint on the left —- has undoubtedly helped make some districts more unshakably Republican.
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Trump has also suggested redrawing U.S. security relationships in other regions, arguing that Germany and Saudi Arabia need to do more in their own defense or pay the U.S. more for the protection it offers.
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A Merdeka Center survey in December showed that Najib is likely to retain power in the next elections thanks to a divided opposition and the redrawing of electoral boundaries that critics say favors the government.
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This is true, but tantamount to an admission of guilt: politicians in some safely Democratic districts in the north have not been above fiddling with election rules and redrawing district boundaries to protect incumbents either.
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The latest decision, handed down just after the voter ID ruling, held that the state's 2013 redrawing of the map for its state House districts intentionally discriminated against minority voters in four of those districts.
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If the projections are confirmed, the greens will have trounced the mainstream center-right and center-left parties, which have failed to recover from Macron's redrawing of the political landscape in the 2017 presidential vote.
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They also state that Hofeller conducted a 85033 study that found adding a citizenship question to the census would boost Republicans and non-Hispanic whites in redrawing congressional districts while harming Democrats and Hispanic communities.
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The practice of redrawing voting districts to gain political advantage is named after Elbridge Gerry, who as governor of Massachusetts signed a bill in 1812 creating a long, thin district designed to undermine Federalist candidates.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's redrawing of the state's district lines has transformed Mr. Costello's already competitive district from one that was almost evenly split between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to one that supported Mrs.
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" Out of the nine months he spent working on Mind Frame, the artist spent the majority of his time drawing and redrawing facial features and hands, "distorting aspects of space vs time, the self vs.
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Redrawing the lines of the map would balance out supply differences so that people living in more dense areas with longer waitlists would no longer face greater challenges getting an organ simply because of geography.
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But given a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that resulted in the state redrawing its congressional districts, the updated 18th District will include parts of liberal Pittsburgh, which should make it much friendlier to Democrats.
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Over the centuries, lawmakers have become ever more sophisticated in redrawing legislative maps after each decennial census, carving out oddly shaped districts for state legislatures and the House of Representatives that favor their parties' candidates.
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Carmakers in Britain have triggered some Brexit contingency plans such as certifying models in Europe and are working on redrawing production schedules and stockpiling more parts to defend against any loss of unfettered trade after Brexit.
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Adhering to the court's words (in a 139-page opinion made on February 7th) while subverting their spirit, Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania House and Senate set to redrawing the map with no input from Democrats.
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The term, coined in the early 19th century, mixes "salamander"— the shape of some districts after redrawing—and "Gerry" after the governor (Elbridge Gerry) who in 1812 signed a bill redistricting Massachusetts to benefit his party.
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These computer scientists are motivated by the belief that data and algorithms will create transparency in the notoriously opaque redistricting process by exposing the inputs and parameters that led to redrawing a district a certain way.
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A group of black and Hispanic Texans quickly mounted a legal challenge to the new map, arguing that the state's Republican lawmakers had engaged in racial gerrymandering by redrawing districts to bolster white Texans' voting power.
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Those documents show that Hofeller conducted an unpublished study in 2015 that found that asking about citizenship on the census would help Republican and white groups in redrawing congressional districts, while harming Democrats and Hispanic communities.
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But Germany warned last week that redrawing Serbia's border with Kosovo would fan ethnic tensions, although the European Union and the United States have said they would abide by a deal if it respected international law.
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Pennsylvania's Sixth District: Democratic Air Force veteran Chrissy Houlahan is strongly favored Perhaps the single most damaging impact of the new map on Republicans' House prospects was the redrawing of this district, represented by Republican Rep.
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When the lower court struck down the congressional map and ordered the redrawing of a new one ahead of this year's midterms, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the order while an appeal is prepared and considered.
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Next year's statehouse races will reorder the country's political map for a decade, because many of the 36 governors elected will have a strong hand in redrawing state legislative and congressional boundaries after the 2020 census.
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And that is true in Pennsylvania's 18th district, which likely won't exist in its current form come November's midterm elections, thanks to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court redrawing the state's legislative map to redress decades of gerrymandering.
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Bethlehem was a small town in what had been the Ottoman province of Palestine, but its future was uncertain as the armies of different powers ranged closer, and the cartographers kept redrawing the maps in Paris.
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This is certainly better for Democrats, but due to the degree the state was gerrymandered to benefit Republicans, it's more accurate to think of this redrawing as leveling out the balance rather than a Democratic gerrymander.
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Some experts, and even senior officials, talk about starting over and redrawing the entire antitrust architecture, much as America did in 1890 when it passed the Sherman act, and again in 1914 when the FTC was formed.
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The third probe relates to questions about the redrawing of boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, which removed property belonging to a Republican lawmaker in the state from the confines of the park.
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The United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin decided 2-633 that Act 43, a redrawing of districts approved by the state's Republican-led legislature in 2012, violated the U.S. Constitution, court documents showed.
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It is set to import over 2 million tonnes of diesel this month, but severe disruptions caused by Hurricane Harvey on refining operations in the Gulf Coast have led to a temporary redrawing of traditional trade routes.
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Those lawmakers will play a crucial role in redrawing the state legislative maps and congressional districts that will shape the next ten years of elections (with the exception of a handful of states with independent redistricting commissions).
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In Maryland, the plaintiffs challenged only a specific district -- so they had standing -- but the Court rejected their request for a temporary ruling (a "preliminary injunction") that would require redrawing the map before the 2018 midterm elections.
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"Whether the election is November 2018 or earlier, redrawing the districts is good for our democracy by leveling the playing field for free and fair elections," North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, said in a statement.
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Going into the 2020 election, Mr. Trump can now count on a friend in Tallahassee who will be able to exert influence over the crucial redrawing of the state's congressional and legislative districts after the next census.
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The town of al-Bukamal sits just a few miles from the strategic al-Qaim border crossing with Iraq and is a symbol of the Islamic State's success in redrawing the modern borders of the Middle East.
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" In a third essay, Pence slammed Indiana's General Assembly for redrawing congressional district lines to the point that the state in the 1992 election "will have fewer competitive congressional elections than in any year in recent memory.
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But for Gómez, this was clearly just a matter of redrawing the lines between insider and outsider, and he proved quite vigilant in reassuring the members of this congregation that they were, in fact, on the inside.
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This redrawing of the basic geography of European commerce was playing out just as President Trump was disavowing regional trade deals across the Atlantic and Pacific, while variously threatening trade hostilities with Canada, China, Germany and Mexico.
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Republicans, including members of the state legislature, potential candidates and voters, asked the Supreme Court to put the ruling on hold, saying redrawing the district lines this month would cause chaos ahead of the November House races.
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In Colorado, Michigan, and Missouri, ballot initiatives aimed at replacing gerrymandering — the redrawing of legislative districts by political incumbents to strengthen their party's electoral representation — with nonpartisan methods of redistricting all received more than 20183% of the vote.
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It also reflects the redrawing of traditional industry borders as tech companies take a hands-on role in healthcare innovation, as highlighted by the fact that Verily will appoint two members to the new fund's scientific advisory board.
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Trump has also suggested redrawing U.S. security relationships in other regions, arguing that Germany and Saudi Arabia need to do more in their own defense or shell out bigger payments to the U.S. for the protection it provides.
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"I think Europe would be better off democratically with a redrawing of the political map," he said, adding that he would come up with a new initiative to regroup "progressives" and "reformists" together in EU elections next year.
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They want to help Democrats pick up as many seats as they can in states that will be crucial to redrawing congressional voting maps in 2021, including Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, and Kentucky.
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But as redistricting technology continues to become more precise, the party that controls the redistricting body — which in most states is the legislature — can keep itself in power by redrawing the maps in its favor after each census.
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And in North Carolina, the League of Women Voters of North Carolina similarly argued that Robert Rucho, the chair of the state senate's 2016 redistricting committee, charged election officials with redrawing district maps to benefit the Republican party.
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But effective gerrymandering has masked reality: North Carolina Republicans won only 28500 percent of House votes in 6900, and have averaged only 2628 percent in the four House election cycles since redrawing congressional maps after the 28503 census.
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In the decision, the majority wrote that in redrawing the southwestern 23rd Congressional district, for example, map makers moved 600,000 voters between districts and fractured a heavily Latino county in a deliberate effort to lessen Hispanic voter turnout.
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Hoping to eschew this new normal and get the American worker to a place where some semblance of economic stability exists, Warren's plan is an instruction manual for redrawing the power map to be more in workers' favor.
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The REDMAP post-28503 report — its famed "autopsy" — claims that "[i]n the 22019 congressional districts that were labeled by National Public Radio as 'competitive" in 2010, Republicans controlled the redrawing of at least 47 of those districts.
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It's a debate that's playing out across the country, but the stakes are especially high in Texas this year where Democrats at the state level have a shot at redrawing the election maps that will keep them competitive.
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Civil liberties advocates also fear that the Trump administration is injecting political considerations into the bureau, a rigidly nonpartisan agency whose population count will be the basis for redrawing congressional and state legislative districts in the early 2020s.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian army advance against Islamic State in northern Syria has opened a new link between government-held areas in western Syria and the Kurdish-dominated northeast, redrawing the map of the conflict near the Turkish border.
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Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent and prosecutor, was elected before the redrawing in 2016 and found himself representing a district where 54% of his constituents disapproved of Republican President Trump when the new lines were drawn earlier this year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Carmakers in Britain have triggered some Brexit contingency plans, such as certifying models in the EU, and are working on redrawing production schedules and stockpiling more parts to defend against any loss of unfettered trade after Brexit.
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Two years before state legislatures begin the high-stakes process of redrawing congressional district boundaries, Democrats made significant inroads in the midterm elections to guarantee themselves at least some say in how those lines are drawn in many states.
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Managing the aftermath, which saw the country split by age, class and geography, will need political dexterity in the short run; in the long run it may require a redrawing of traditional political battle-lines and even subnational boundaries.
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A recent redrawing of the electoral map has skewed representation away from urban areas and Chinese communities, both of whom have largely boycotted the government, toward rural, ethnic Malay voters that have traditionally formed the ruling coalition's power base.
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This week, representatives from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Turkey and the United States — who sit on a body that oversees implementation of the Dayton accord — warned that "there will be no redrawing of the map" in Bosnia.
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And as they come back, they are redrawing the demographic map of a region that has long been defined by its displaced population and where cities are already straining to deal with rapidly expanding tent camps and shanty towns.
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The tactics include strict voter-ID laws, purges of the voter rolls, redrawing district lines so as to dilute the power of black and Hispanic voters, cutting back on early voting and in some instances opposing automatic voter registration.
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Anger among Israel's Arabs has focused on one part of that plan in particular, a proposed redrawing of borders that would put some Arab towns and villages outside Israel and into the area assigned to a future Palestinian state.
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A three-judge panel of the state court unanimously ordered the redrawing after Democrats and voting-rights advocates had challenged parts of the old maps, arguing that they violated the State Constitution's guarantees of free speech and free elections.
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Hofeller concluded in a 2015 study that asking census respondents whether they are American citizens "would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats" and "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" in redrawing electoral districts based on census data.
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Is the Syrian refugee crisis not connected to the Arab uprisings, the change in climate, the geopolitical shifts in the Middle East and North Africa region, the continued colonization of Palestine and redrawing of the maps by the West there?
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Nepal made changes to the constitution to ensure greater participation of the Madhesis in parliament but the community leaders said the amendments failed to address their central fear of redrawing the provincial borders in a way that would divide them.
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Yet Washington's emphasis on the geopolitically trivial — looking for warlords in Somalia and Uganda, attempting to Westernize Afghanistan, redrawing the map of the Balkans, seeking to fix multiple Middle Eastern countries — risks impairing America's ability to handle the truly consequential.
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The latest redrawing of France's administrative map, and the dispute it has caused here, coincide with an unrelated territorial conflict on the southern side of the Pyrenees over whether the Catalan regional government, based in Barcelona, can split from Spain.
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Because those individuals often have health conditions and need different kinds of social support, Esguerra sees his job as redrawing the lines of traditional healthcare, so it encompasses things like helping people who struggle to get reliable access to food.
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Why it matters: A decision, expected by June, could force a redrawing of the boundaries of two congressional districts and nine state legislative districts before Texas' state legislature is required to do another round of redistricting after the 2020 census.
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As might be expected, these plans, some of which were shared exclusively with the San Diego Union Tribune, ranged from the overly optimistic (a wall made of solar panels) to the farcical (a wall of artists standing around redrawing border lines).
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But if gerrymandering lawmakers argue that they are using race as a proxy for political party, perhaps that may not trigger strict scrutiny — since they may be legally allowed to consider partisanship when redrawing legislative maps without meeting strict scrutiny.
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The New York City Charter provides a strong model for redrawing city council districts by keeping like-minded communities together; avoiding bizarrely shaped districts; and making sure that travel within the district is convenient without having to cross into another district.
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Jorgen Popp Petersen, a pig farmer and local representative of the minority's political party, recalls "fanatics" in his childhood resisting intercommunity marriages and calling for a redrawing of the border, which has changed several times over Danish history, often through warfare.
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He tried to mollify Arab voters outraged by his embrace of the Trump peace plan, which suggested redrawing the borders to give a proposed new Palestinian state sovereignty over the so-called Arab Triangle, a predominantly Arab part of Israel.
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A panel of three federal judges said on Monday that the Wisconsin Legislature's 232 redrawing of State Assembly districts to favor Republicans was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander, the first such ruling in three decades of pitched legal battles over the issue.
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After a yearlong debate that exposed the difficulty of taking even small steps toward integrating New York City's schools, an elected parent council voted on Tuesday to approve a major redrawing of school zones on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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The process of redrawing the maps may be delayed not only by an appeal but also because the San Antonio panel has yet to rule on another aspect of the case, the district maps drawn for the state's House of Representatives.
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Tuesday's decision, issued unanimously by two Democratic judges and one Republican, appears to end a legal battle over the legislative maps that already had forced the redrawing of 28 districts that a federal court had found to be racial gerrymanders.
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"The folks that win this year are going to be in office after the next census, meaning they are going to have a role in redrawing the district lines across the country," said Jonathan Martin of The New York Times.
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As they make their way through the workforce, buy properties and have children of their own they are not only elbowing out Generation X as the driving force in the US economy; millennial migrants are redrawing the map of America.
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The North Carolina dispute centered on a congressional redistricting plan adopted by the Republican-led legislature in 2016 after a court found that Republican lawmakers improperly used race as a factor when redrawing certain U.S. House districts after the 2010 census.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. refineries from Ohio to Minnesota are capitalizing on access to cheap crude from Western Canada and North Dakota oilfields, helping their region break a historic dependence on fuel from the Gulf Coast while redrawing oil trade maps.
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The North Carolina dispute centered on a congressional redistricting plan adopted by the Republican-led legislature in 2016 after a court found that Republican lawmakers improperly used race as a factor when redrawing certain U.S. House districts after the 2010 census.
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The North Carolina dispute differed from the Texas case decided on Monday in that it focused on the redrawing of electoral maps by state legislators to give one party a lopsided advantage, in this case the Republicans, rather than for racial discrimination.
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Signs that he favors a radical redrawing of a system largely unchanged since 1945, but which French citizens do not want to lose, have handed the opposition a stick to beat him with and suddenly made healthcare a hot-button election issue.
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The Trump plan said land swaps could include both populated and unpopulated areas and redrawing the borders of Israel so that the so-called Triangle Communities become part of the State of Palestine would need to be agreed on by both parties.
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Mr. Rosenthal offers, as two examples, the holiday itself and this week's federal court decision that Wisconsin's redrawing of State Assembly districts to favor Republicans was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander, the first such ruling in three decades of legal battles over the issue.
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Most importantly for politicians, many of the state legislatures elected in 2018 will still be in office in 2020, when the country starts the byzantine task of redrawing the congressional map — a process determined differently by each state, but largely by state legislatures.
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And though Mr. Orban commands a formidable majority, it is partly the result of this echo chamber in the media, which has muted alternative voices, and the redrawing of electoral boundaries and the restructuring of the electoral system to favor his party.
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Palestinian officials briefed on Kushner's plan told Reuters the political aspect envisages an expansion of Gaza, a small coastal strip, into Egypt's North Sinai region, though Jason Greenblatt, Trump's Middle East envoy, said "rumors" about such a redrawing of borders were false.
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But Mr. McManus often "refused to fall in line" with the Democratic establishment over particular candidates and other issues and it finally sought revenge in this primary, said Ms. Spillane, who accused Democratic leaders of redrawing district lines to weaken the McManus club.
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In addition, the organization will focus on several elections that may affect the redrawing of the congressional map after the 2020 census; these include races for governor in states such as Florida and Wisconsin and redistricting-themed ballot referendums in Colorado and Michigan.
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Costello's announcement comes on the heels of several tough developments for Republicans in Pennsylvania, including a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week to reject the state GOP's plea to reverse a redrawing of the state's congressional districts because they were gerrymandered.
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Prayut also changed electoral rules so it's more difficult for big parties like Thaksin's main opposition Pheu Thai to return to power through redrawing constituency boundaries to its advantage and introducing a new voting system that caps the number of party list lawmakers.
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After Mr. Erdogan raised the issue of redrawing the border during his December visit, the Greek defense minister, Panos Kammenos, accused the Turkish leadership of stupidity, described its military as enfeebled, and reminded Turkey of a humiliating Ottoman defeat in the 19th century.
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The troubles come on the cusp of a crucial opportunity for the party to amass political power for the next decade: the 2020 state-level elections, which will determine which party controls the process of redrawing the political maps for the next decade.
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With partisan gerrymandering, the political party that controls a state legislature uses the process of redrawing electoral districts after the U.S. census every decade to tighten its grip on power by diluting the influence of voters who tend to back the rival party.
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Husted said the plaintiffs should respect a new process that Ohio voters approved this month that would put future redrawing of congressional district maps in the hands of a bipartisan commission if Ohio's General Assembly cannot pass a plan supported by both parties.
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Breyer's remark, coming during a March 28 oral argument in a closely watched case involving the redrawing of electoral districts aimed at entrenching one party in power, illustrated the difficulty the nine justices seem to be having in producing rulings at their usual pace.
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Redrawing such districts with citizen-only populations would give Republicans a better shot by expanding the districts into more conservative areas, said Albert Kauffman, a professor at St. Mary's School of Law in San Antonio who has studied redistricting and opposes excluding non-citizens.
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Holder, 68, whose six-year tenure as attorney general was marked by civil rights advances and frequent fights with Republicans in Congress, said he will continue his work with a nonprofit group he founded to fight for reforms in the redrawing of legislative boundaries.
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For years, Republicans, with their hands on the levers in state legislatures and governors' mansions, have made it incredibly hard for Democrats to make gains in Congress, redrawing congressional boundaries to favor Republicans and passing laws that make it harder for Americans to vote.
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Globalization has created a new consciousness about the interconnected world and given us tools to think about art histories from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, challenging a certain parochialism in the art world and redrawing the way we write art history.
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And remember this: All of the governors elected on Tuesday in these states will be in office through 2022, which means they will be their states' chief executives during the once-in-a-decade redrawing of legislative and congressional district lines following the 2020 census.
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When the first episode of Telltale's interactive take on Batman came out in early August, I felt that, despite its intriguing redrawing of the Penguin, it was ultimately too safe, too familiar, to truly feel like a series I was ready to root for.
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Yet defenders of the plan said the 1967 lines had not been sacred for a long time: The Bush administration said in 2004 that changing "realities on the ground" should be taken into account in redrawing the boundary between Israel and the West Bank.
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"I've got my fingers crossed," he said, staring down the building for long stretches with his hands on his hips, and at one point abruptly deciding to extend the positions of two walls, redrawing them on the blueprints just a day before construction was to begin.
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I've ended up redrawing quite a few pages to get them right, which is something I've never done on a project before and which my kind editor secretly wishes to strangle me over, so there's definitely a steeper learning curve than what I've been used to.
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Democrats call the citizenship question part of a broader Republican effort at the federal and state level, also including voter-suppression measures and redrawing of electoral districts, to diminish the voting power of areas and groups that typically back Democratic candidates, including immigrants, Latinos and African-Americans.
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Disinformation is another cult hallmark, Hassen saidHassen said cult leaders also make liberal use of disinformation — a tactic which Trump has embraced with vigor, from exaggerating crowd sizes to redrawing hurricane maps, often with the goal of demonstrating that a false claim he made is actually true.
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I could go on like this, but my real point is that even though I think a massive redrawing of the federal org chart would be a good idea, I would never in a million years want to elect a president who's determined to get this done.
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Ahead of Election Day, Vox's Dylan Scott laid out why state legislative elections are so important: They're crucial for state-level policy debates on issues such as taxes, education, and health care, and they will also be key when officials start redrawing US congressional districts in 2020.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The US Department of the Interior has finalized plans to allow drilling, mining, and grazing in once-protected national monuments in southern Utah, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, by redrawing the boundaries of the monuments, reducing them by nearly 85 and 50 percent respectively.
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But let's be clear: Wasserman Schultz was at the helm when Democrats suffered catastrophic losses in 2014, losing control of the Senate and continuing a streak of losses in statehouses that set up Republicans to control voting rules and dominate the redrawing of political district lines in 2020.
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That reapportionment, expected in December 20.48, will kick off the year-and-a-half-long process of redrawing congressional-district maps — still in many states a brazen partisan battle that makes strange bedfellows, unplanned retirements and intense member-versus-member races, especially in states poised to lose seats.
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Laurel Ellison, who was listed as a co-defendant in the lawsuit as the elections supervisor for Habersham County, where most of the errors occurred, said at Tuesday's hearing that some of the discrepancies had been caused by complications in the county's redrawing of district lines in recent years.
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The redrawing of electoral boundaries to favour UMNO candidates and the imposition of bureaucratic obstacles related both to parties' registrations and candidates' eligibility to run all burden PH. Dr Mahathir hopes that a huge turnout—higher than the 80% recorded in 2013—will tip the election in the opposition's favour.
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The NAFTA talks have been stalled over U.S. insistence on redrawing auto industry rules to require more regional content, higher salaries in the sector, and other proposals including a so-called sunset clause that would automatically kill the 24-year-old accord if it is not renegotiated every five years.
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While he has not publicly offered any details on how that might work, especially given the inherent dangers of redrawing maps in the volatile Balkans, the idea gained momentum last year when John R. Bolton, the Trump administration's national security adviser, said the United States was open to the idea.
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But Mark Zuckerberg, its founder and boss, has even greater ambitions June 25thManaging the aftermath of Brexit, which saw the country split by age, class and geography, will need political dexterity in the short run; in the long run it may require a redrawing of traditional political battle-lines and even subnational boundaries.
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The people who are elected to state office this November will be responsible for redrawing voting district maps after the 2020 census, which can greatly skew the odds in favor of one party or the other and directly affects the election process at both the state and federal levels for the next decade.
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But Monday's lavish audience with the British royals was the culmination of more than a month of planning by White House officials who have grown accustomed to accommodating President Trump's children, whether that includes redrawing plans for a state visit or evicting guests from their seats at the State of the Union address.
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Dr. Bitzer, the political scientist, said that while Democrats as a whole may stand to gain seats under a new map, a redrawing might not turn out to be good news for individual candidates like Dan McCready, in the Ninth District around Charlotte, or Kathy Manning, in the 13th District around Greensboro.
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Though he has been blamed for a higher cost of living since a goods and services tax began in 2015, Mr. Najib is widely expected to win a third term, thanks to a divided opposition, an upbeat economy, rural support and the redrawing of electoral boundaries that critics say favors the government.
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"The congressional map passed by Republicans in the North Carolina legislature simply replaces one partisan gerrymander with a new one," said Eric H. Holder Jr., who was attorney general under former President Barack Obama and now leads an effort to prevent Republicans from controlling the redrawing of congressional maps after the 2020 census.
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But the justices were also grappling with whether the Virginia legislators who challenged the district court's ruling — Republicans who argued that redrawing the boundaries yet again would push black voters into their district and make it more difficult for them to be reelected — had the standing to challenge the case at all.
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" That's the most striking finding of a project the AP has been planning with members for weeks, "Redrawing America: Imbalance of Power ... how gerrymandering benefited GOP in 2016," by David Lieb: "The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year.
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Najib came under fire from opposition parties and civil society groups for a redrawing of electoral lines that skewed constituencies heavily in favor of his ruling coalition, towards the rural ethnic Malay-Muslim voters that have traditionally formed Barisan Nasional's power base, and away from the urban voters that have largely abandoned his coalition.
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The potential border redrawing has been largely embraced in Finland, a proud if somewhat flat nation that had been part of the Russian Empire for more than a century, until Russia's two revolutions in 1917: one that overthrew the czarist regime and a second that established a Bolshevik republic that became the Soviet Union.
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The outcome in Virginia is certain to play a role in determining the fate of gun restrictions pushed by Democratic Governor Ralph Northam after a mass shooting that killed 20203 people in Virginia Beach in May, and in the once-a-decade process of redrawing legislative lines that will begin after the 2020 census.
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"This prompt redrawing will allow North Carolinians to at least rest assured, knowing which districts they will be living in come the November 2018 elections, and that the federal court will be reviewing the remedial plans closely to ensure they are legal," said Allison Riggs, an attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
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The court is leaving it up to the Republican state legislature to redraw the maps, but it is setting specific guidelines for them to follow: The new maps must be redrawn by September 18 (within two weeks), lawmakers can't use data to try to draw a partisan advantage, and the redrawing process must be public.
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In the past few weeks alone, California's voting rights disputes resulted in a federal voting rights suit against alleged districting discrimination in Kern County; a redrawing of districts in the coastal town of San Juan Capistrano, following a state voting rights suit; and legal action by Shenkman against an allegedly suppressive school district in the Los Angeles area.
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In the story of Tribe, the album was a rekindling and a reunion, a new beginning for a group that had drifted apart since its days as one of hip-hop's defining acts (think of them as the genre's Nirvana, a band that laid out an ethos of the alternative and then followed it to mainstream-redrawing success).
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The Constitution requires the federal government to count every person inside the United States every ten years for representational and redistricting purposes: With the sole exception of the U.S. Senate, every federal and state legislative body uses census data when redrawing its seats and districts—and thus the geography of American political power—once every decade.
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Newly submitted evidence in the Maryland court case includes a 2015 study written by Republican strategist Thomas Hofeller in which he concluded that asking census respondents whether they are U.S. citizens "would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats" and "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" in redrawing electoral districts based on decennial census data.
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Election reformers in both parties had hoped the justices would rein in the intensified use of partisan gerrymandering, a practice in which the party that controls a state legislature uses the process of redrawing electoral districts after the U.S. census every decade to tighten its grip on power by diluting the influence of voters who tend to support the rival party.
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Now, with the change of American administrations, some Israeli analysts have recommended that Mr. Netanyahu take the opportunity to try to reinstate understandings that Israel had with President George W. Bush, who wrote in a 2004 letter that "already existing major Israeli population centers" should be taken into consideration in redrawing the borders between Israel and the West Bank — a reference to settlement blocs.
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Here's why it really matters -- and why the 2018 election will have a major impact on the election cycles to come: Voters this fall will install 30 governors and more than 800 legislators that will be responsible for redrawing voting districts in three years -- which will have a major impact in each and every state in the country, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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The chancellor's decision now makes clear that neither she nor her country are immune to the forces that have reordered politics across the Continent — the cratering of the political center; the rise of populist forces; the blowback from the migration crisis; and a redrawing of the political fault lines away from the historical left-right divide toward a battle between liberal pro-European values and their nationalist polar opposite.
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The current power balance reflects, among other things, the extraordinary dynamics of a race featuring a television-savvy outsider against the first female major party nominee, the vagaries of turnout in a nation where roughly half of registered voters cast ballots, the systematic redrawing of political maps in ways that favored Republicans, and frustration among voters over lost jobs, low wages and the nation's changing racial and ethnic mix.
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The Greek Cypriot leader, Nicos Anastasiades, noted that both sides had submitted maps detailing the redrawing of internal boundaries, a promising first; that Turkey had agreed to discuss the issue of the security guarantees, itself a sign of progress; and that both sides had made progress in discussing areas like governance, the economy and Cyprus's involvement in the European Union, which it joined in 2004, notwithstanding the divisions.
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Najib faced criticism himself ahead of the election for the last-minute redrawing of electoral boundaries that was allegedly meant to favor his Barisan Nasional coalition, the introduction of a "fake news" law just weeks before polls, and the decision to hold the vote on a Wednesday, which made it very difficult for some Malaysians to return to the places where they were registered to cast their ballots.
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There is no virtual reality, there's three separate technologies: There's tracking your physical movements, we call that tracking; there's rendering, which is redrawing graphics and sound from a new location, from a different angle, which is mostly computer graphics; and then there's display, which is how to figure out the optics to show people sensory information, how to position speakers using spatialized sound, and then scent and touch if you wanna do those.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Saturday urged Pennsylvania Republicans for the second time to appeal a court's redrawing of the state's congressional map to the U.S. Supreme Court, blasting "Democrat judges" who designed the new map.
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So far, the new term's docket includes cases involving, among other things, the use of race in redrawing state legislative districts, a free-speech challenge to a federal law that denies protection to disparaging trademarks, a challenge to the secrecy of jury deliberations when there is evidence that a juror was racially biased against the defendant and Texas's unscientific standard for determining whether someone is intellectually disabled enough to be spared from execution.
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The Department of Justice is investigating whether Zinke broke the law when a nonprofit he used to lead negotiated a land deal with a developer backed in part by David Lesar, the chairman of oilfield services company Halliburton Co. Zinke is also facing investigations from Interior's Office of the Inspector General and elsewhere over an American Indian casino he didn't approve, whether he tried to help a Utah lawmaker in redrawing a national monument and other ethics allegations.
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Major's struggle to stay true to his nice-guy persona while being forced into becoming Du Clark's zombie assassin for hire to save Liv's life (again, yes, that's really what happens) is truly affecting, and calls back to one of Veronica Mars's main themes: Veronica's struggle to retain her heart even in the face of so much darkness, and to hold to her ethical line in the sand even as the world's evils kept redrawing it.
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Other key factors stacked the odds against P.H. even more: the late-stage redrawing of the boundaries of numerous voting constituencies; the decision to hold the election midweek, which made it difficult for working people to vote (after a popular uproar, May 9 was later declared a public holiday); the disqualification of Tian Chua, a star of the P.H. coalition, for an unpaid fine of about $500; the election commission's delay in sending postal ballot forms to overseas voters, which resulted in many of them not being able to cast their vote.
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