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Gerrymandering (/ˈdʒɛrimændərɪŋ/,[1][2]) is a practice intended to establish an unfair political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries, which is most commonly used in first-past-the-post electoral systems.

Two principal tactics are used in gerrymandering: "cracking" (i.e. diluting the voting power of the opposing party's supporters across many districts) and "packing" (concentrating the opposing party's voting power in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts).[3] The top-left diagram in the graphic is a form of cracking where the majority party uses its superior numbers to guarantee the minority party never attains a majority in any district.

In addition to its use achieving desired electoral results for a particular party, gerrymandering may be used to help or hinder a particular demographic, such as a political, ethnic, racial, linguistic, religious, or class group, such as in Northern Ireland where boundaries were constructed to guarantee Protestant Unionist majorities.[4] The U.S. federal voting district boundaries that produce a majority of constituents representative of African-American or other racial minorities are known as "majority-minority districts". Gerrymandering can also be used to protect incumbents. Wayne Dawkings describes it as politicians picking their voters instead of voters picking their politicians.[5]

The term gerrymandering is named after Elbridge Gerry (pronounced like "Gary"[2]), who, as Governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander. The term has negative connotations and gerrymandering is almost always considered a corruption of the democratic process

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1.George Washington did not have a middle name.

2.George Washington Nicknames; Father of His Country ;The American Cincinnatus ; The American Fabius ;Town Destroyer

3.George Washington/Date of birth ;February 22, 1732

4.George Washington/Date of death ; December 14, 1799

5.National monument in Westmoreland County, Virginia

6.George Washington Parents; Mary Ball Washington and Augustine Washington

7.George Washington/Wife; Martha Washington

8. George Washington Parke Custis Children; Mary Anna Custis Lee, Maria Carter Custis and Lucy Harrison

9. George Washington Professions; Soldier, Military Officer, Farmer, Surveying, Engineer, Cartographer ,Statesperson ,Law enforcement officer

10.The Mansion at George Washington's Mount Vernon

11.Mount Vernon

12.George Washington/Presidential term ;April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797

13.Federalist

14. He was the first U.S President

15.the Revolutionary War

16.The Washington Monument

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