CDR: Re: Close Elections and Causality
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Tue Nov 14 10:04:42 PST 2000
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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