Nesting_(voting_districts)
Nesting (voting districts)
Delimitation of voting districts
Nesting is the delimitation of voting districts for one elected body in order to define the voting districts for another body.[1]
The major concerns of nesting are:
- the practice may impede the creation of majority-minority districts
- the practice may cause cities or other communities with common concerns to be split into different voting districts (and therefore dilute their votes)