English-Finnish translations for gerrymander

Definition of gerrymander

• To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election
• The act of gerrymandering
• A voting district skewed by gerrymandering

Examples

• 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.
• By this iniquitous practice, which is known as the gerrymander, the party in a minority in each State is allowed to get only about one-half or one-quarter of its proper share of representation. "gerrymander" is not actually used, but just mentioned here. Can an example be provided that illustrates how to use "gerrymander"? --
• 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 4 counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.

Related words

• gerrymandering
• pengerrys
• gerrymanderism