French-English translations for charcutage électoral

gerrymander
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Ireland rejected the Nice Treaty the first time and only accepted it later due to impressive gerrymandering in a second referendum. L’Irlande a rejeté le traité de Nice la première fois et ne l’a accepté, lors du second référendum, qu’à la faveur d’un impressionnant charcutage électoral. 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"? --

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