Australian Multi-Member Multi-Constituency Elections

New Democracy donald at mich.com
Mon Apr 20 03:37:33 PDT 1998


>Do you use the word "gerrymander" to describe both intentional
>and unintentional disadvantages?  That is, if a single-member
>district were unintentionally drawn to the disadvantage of a
>group of people, would you call it a gerrymander?
>
>I used the term 'gerrymander' to describe intentional rigging of electoral
>boundaries.  The downsides of single member electorates in 'unintentional
>disadvantage' are obvious.
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Ian Farrow,
     Why do you have an attachment with your letters?

     There is nothing in the attachment but junk.

Don
     Example below is from another letter. The attachment for the above
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