dummymandered

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A form of dummymander — A 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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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of dummymander
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