Unfairly Manipulate Voting Areas

Unfairly manipulate voting areas crossword clue. A daily two speed crossword in Daily Telegraph Sydney on Tuesday, 18 July 2017. 11 letters.

The answer: GERRYMANDER

n the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries. The resulting district is known as a gerrymander; however, that word can also refer to the process. The term gerrymandering has negative connotations. 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)