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When politicians redraw the size and borders of a voting area before an election so that one person, group, or party gets an unfair chance to win. As a verb: they gerrymander the map. As a noun: that strangely shaped district is a gerrymander. It is a blaming word — you almost never use it about your own side. In US it is everyday talk; other countries borrow it too, even when their voting rules are different. Though actually, not every redraw is a gerrymander. Populations move, so maps must be updated; the word is for a redraw done to game the result, packing rival voters into a few districts or stretching a friendly area into an odd shape. People also stretch it, a bit loosely, to any rule-tweak that looks rigged.
傑利蠑螈（不公平劃分選區）
組成A blend of the name Gerry (from Gerald, an old Germanic given name) and salamander. In 1812 a voting map linked to Governor Elbridge Gerry was said to look like a salamander, and the joke-name stuck.
同家族的字
- gerrymanderingthe name for the practice, or the -ing form of the verb
- salamanderthe animal the map was said to look like; the second half of the blend
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gerrymanderverb/ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌmændə/
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derogatoryTo divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
- Prop 50 would implement a newly gerrymandered map that would hold until the next decennial census, in 2030, when an independent commission would again draw the lines. […] [Will] O’Neill isn’t necessarily wrong. Democrats readily concede that they are betraying principles of good governance in trying to gerrymander California.
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derogatoryTo draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.
- The superintendent helped gerrymander the school district lines in order to keep the children of the wealthy gated community in the better school all the way across town.
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derogatoryTo change the franchise or voting system in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
- [The Reform Bill's] main purpose will be so to gerrymander the electorate as to give the greatest possible assistance to the Radical party at the next election.
- But Remainers often picture [Brexit] instead as the upshot of a poorly framed question put to an ill-informed, and underrepresentative segment of the population – even the product of a 'gerrymander'.
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derogatoryTo deliberately bring in voters of one's own party or displace voters of another party from a voting district in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
- Westminster City Council has been accused by the District Auditor of using public money to gerrymander marginal wards for the 1990 Borough elections. The strategy of attempting to 'gentrify' eight key wards, selling off council homes and hostels for the homeless to move out potential Labour voters and attract in more Conservative voters, was in conflict with the council's statutory duty to homeless people
- Fermanagh Council even went so far as to create the new village of Donagh in an attempt to move Catholics out of Newtownbutler, four miles away, so unionists could gerrymander a majority.
gerrymandernoun/ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌmændə/
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derogatoryThe act of gerrymandering.
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derogatoryA voting district skewed by gerrymandering.
- Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across four counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.
- Courts have repeatedly struck down Republican-drawn maps on the grounds that they constitute illegal racial gerrymanders designed to dilute the electoral power of Black voters, who overwhelmingly cast Democratic ballots.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。