Because most states still let their legislators do this redrawing, gerrymandering has remained a problem.
It means rethinking job definitions, work processes, and power and role structures and redrawing boundaries.
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It also proposes cutting the number of MPs by 50 to 600, and redrawing parliamentary boundaries.
In Texas the GOP "flipped" several seats to its side in 2004 by artistically redrawing congressional districts.
Gerrymandering refers to his redrawing of the political map while governor of Massachusetts.
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MPs voted to delay a decision on redrawing boundaries across the UK until after the next election after a coalition split.
Natural gas flooding into domestic pipelines has dramatically cut energy bills for homeowners and businesses alike, while redrawing global energy relationships.
Starr's report was so novelistic that reading it had the effect of redrawing the characters we have watched now for so long.
It is a striking redrawing of a previously scarred and polluted landscape.
Liberal Democrat party president Tim Farron told local Lib Dem parties to start selecting the day after Nick Clegg withdrew his support for redrawing constituencies.
Those in power after the 2010 Census will have enormous clout: they, together with the local legislatures, will be in charge of redrawing the boundaries of congressional districts.
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Though some Bosnian leaders have, in the past two years, privately discussed redrawing the map, they have never been able to agree upon who should give up what.
David Cameron will back redrawing boundaries when the matter is put to the vote, probably next year, but shorn of Lib Dem support the measure is unlikely to be passed.
In most states, governors must sign off on the redistricting plans, and both sides are trying to stack state capitols with officials who will favor their party in redrawing the Congressional map.
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After a decade of virtual legislative standstill, for example, Kuwait's government is promoting educational reform, a redrawing of electoral districts to make voting fairer, and a removal of barriers to foreign investment.
While some other states supposedly had nonpartisan procedures in place for redrawing congressional and legislative districts after a census, Iowa seems to have been the only one that made that goal a reality.
Since redistricting is right around the corner after the 2000 census and the state legislatures and governor control redrawing the district lines, the battle for party control in these states is particularly important in 1998.
Every 10 years, just after the U.S. Census is completed, state lawmakers are charged with the task of redrawing and, in some cases, creating congressional districts that take into account population shifts since the last census.
Tory MP Bernard Jenkin said this was "disgraceful", as the redrawing of constituency boundaries - which would reduce the number of MPs by 50 and equalize constituency sizes - was not linked at all to Lords reform.
If either candidate has coat-tails that reach right down to state level, he can influence the party balance in the state legislatures which, after 2000, will be redrawing the lines of congressional districts (hence affecting future elections).
"It's the 800-pound gorilla, and we're not doing what we should be, " said Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a descendent of Cuban refugees who has played an influential role in redrawing the state's congressional maps since the early-1990s.
The redistricting ruling may well have more political fallout than House apportionment: the redrawing of congressional districts takes place in every state, whereas only a handful of seats are at risk from the juggling of total state populations that takes place in the House.
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