At 10:20 AM +0000 11/14/00, Ken Brown wrote:
But maybe to redraw the boundaries. That's a common problem in Britain. Every now and again some government (almost always Conservative, for reasons to do with gerrymandering I suspect) gets it into its head that it would be a Good Thing if counties were more or less the same size so tried to amalgamate smaller ones and split larger ones and "rationalize" boundaries.
You _do_ know, I assume, that the very term "gerrymandering" came from experiences in the U.S.? (Not to be confused with "jerrymathersing," which refers to the false claim that a person died in a war.) --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)