redistricting

[ree-dis-trik-ting]

noun

1. the activity or process of dividing an area or region into new districts, such as for administrative or electoral purposes.

   The program is focused on issues of voting rights and elections, money in politics, and redistricting and representation.

   As school committee chair, she was tasked with a complicated and controversial redistricting of the town’s elementary schools.

Word History and Origins

Origin of redistricting¹

redistrict ( def. ) + -ing ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

The San Fernando Valley Democrat has said he won’t make a decision until after voters decide Proposition 50, the redistricting proposal he and other state Democratic leaders are championing, on the November ballot.

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Section 2, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting nationwide, has long been used to challenge redistricting plans and other voting procedures that deny voters of color a fair chance to participate in the political process.

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In Callais, self-described “non-African American” voters are challenging a congressional redistricting plan enacted by Louisiana to provide Black voters a fair opportunity to elect their preferred candidates.

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Louisiana drew this plan only after federal courts found that its previous redistricting plan likely violated Section 2.

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The esoteric process of redistricting typically occurs once every decade after the U.S.

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