CDR: Re: Close Elections and Causality

[Tim May]

At 10:20 AM +0000 11/14/00, Ken Brown wrote:
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>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


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