dummymander

plural dummymanders

1. USgovernmentA gerrymander whose narrow margins—intended to electorally benefit the gerrymandering party by consolidating expected opposing voters and more widely distributing expected supporting voters—backfire and actually end up helping the opposing party.

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   We will argue that, in a number of these states, the result of failing to understand the carrying capacity of the lifeboat on the part of the party controlling the districting process and/or its reluctance or inability to take the appropriate measures, is what we will call a dummymander. A dummymander is a gerrymander by one party that, over the course of the decade, benefits the other party, and actually looks as if it was designed by that party rather than the party in power.

   ‘’‘2005’‘’，Bernard Grofman & al., “The Art of the Dummymander...", Redistricting in the New Millennium, p. 184

present singular third person dummymanders · participle present dummymandering · participle past dummymandered · past dummymandered

1. USgovernmentTo carry out a gerrymander of this kind.