districting
districting. The act of drawing lines or establishing boundaries between geographic areas to create voting districts. See APPORTIONMENT(3); GERRYMANDERING. [Cases: Elections 12(6).]
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cracking
cracking, n. A gerrymandering technique in which a geographically concentrated political or racial group that is large enough to constitute a district’s dominant force is broken up by district lines and dispersed throughout two or more districts. Cf. PACKING; STACKING(2). [Cases: Elections 12(6).]