reapportionment, n. Realignment of a legislative district’s boundaries to reflect changes in population. • The U.S. Supreme Court has required federal reapportionment. See U.S. Const. art. I, § 2, cl. 3. — Also termed redistricting. Cf. GERRYMANDERING. [Cases: Elections 12(6); States 27. C.J.S. States §§ 62–78.] — reapportion, vb.
stacking. 1. Insurance. The process of obtaining benefits from a second policy on the same claim when recovery from the first policy alone would be inadequate. [Cases: Insurance 2108, 2799. C.J.S. Insurance §§ 1676, 1680.] judicial stacking. The principle that a court can construe insurance policies to permit stacking, under certain circumstances, when the policies
voter. 1. A person who engages in the act of voting. 2. A person who has the qualifications necessary for voting. — Also termed (in sense 2) legal voter; qualified voter. [Cases: Elections 59–87. C.J.S. Elections §§ 15–19, 26, 28–29, 32.] registered voter. A person who is qualified to vote and whose name is recorded
gerrymandering (jer-ee-man-d[schwa]r-ing orger-ee-), n. 1. The practice of dividing a geographical area into electoral districts, often of highly irregular shape, to give one political party an unfair advantage by diluting the opposition’s voting strength. • When Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry ran for reelection in 1812, members of his political party, the Anti-Federalists, altered the state’s
malapportionment, n. The improper or unconstitutional apportionment of a legislative district. See APPORTIONMENT(3); GERRYMANDERING; LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTING . [Cases: Elections 12(6).] — malapportion, vb.
apportionment, n. 1. Division into proportionate shares; esp., the division of rights and liabilities between two or more persons or entities. 2. Tax law. The act of allocating or attributing moneys or expenses in a given way, as when a taxpayer allocates part of profits to a particular tax year or part of the use
packing, n. A gerrymandering technique in which a dominant political or racial group minimizes minority representation by concentrating the minority into as few districts as possible. Cf. CRACKING; STACKING(2). [Cases: Elections 12(6).]
Twenty-third Amendment. The constitutional amendment, ratified in 1961, that allows District of Columbia residents to vote in presidential elections.
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at large. 1. Free; unrestrained; not under control (the suspect is still at large). 2. Not limited to any particular place, person, matter, or question ( at-large election). 3. Chosen by the voters of an entire political entity, such as a state, county, or city, rather than from separate districts within the entity (councilmember at
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).]