gerrymander

1. (derogatory, transitive)To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.

   divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts

2. (broadly, derogatory, transitive)To 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.

3. (broadly, derogatory, transitive)To change the franchise or voting system in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.

4. (Ireland, UK, broadly, derogatory, transitive)To 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.

1. Popular policies don't require gerrymandering to advance.

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2. They're trying to gerrymander their way to power.

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3. Local party members are trying to gerrymander the district.

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4. They couldn't win an election fairly, so their only recourse was to gerrymander.

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5. If you have to gerrymander in order to stay in power, that probably means you shouldn't be in power anymore.

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