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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 92. Chapters: Arrow's impossibility theorem, Proportional representation, Gerrymandering, Range voting, Election threshold, Primary election, Additional Member System, Voting system, Schulze method, Social Choice and Individual Values, Kemeny-Young method, Nakamura number, None of the above, Wright system, Penrose method, Storable Votes, Single-winner voting system, Nonpartisan blanket primary, Open primaries in the United States, Disapproval voting, One man, one vote, Ranked pairs, Ley de Lemas, Supplementary member, Binominal System, Gallagher Index, Group voting ticket, Relative Utilitarianism, Blackballing, Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform, Huntington-Hill method, Jenkins Commission, Weighted voting, Royal Commission on the Electoral System, Arbuthnott Commission, Interactive representation, Random ballot, Plural voting, Shapley-Shubik power index, Motion and amendment, Election by list, Bullet voting, Anti-plurality voting, Texas caucuses, Schwartzberg's weighted voting, Democratic hierarchy, Rational irrationality, Non-dictatorship, Positional voting system, Ratings ballot, Closed primary, Semi-proportional representation, Open primary, Ransom F. Shoup II, Electorum, Show of hands, Majority bonus. Excerpt: In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating geographic boundaries to create partisan, incumbent-protected districts. The resulting district is known as a gerrymander; however, that word can also refer to the process. Gerrymandering may be used to achieve desired electoral results for a particular party, or may be used to help or hinder a particular demographic, such as a political, racial, linguistic, religious or class group. When used to allege that a given party is gaining disproportion...
