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The Daily Signal
How the Supreme
Court’s ‘One Person, One Vote’ Case Could Boost Republican Clout
Natalie Johnson
September 16, 2015
This fall the Supreme Court will settle the Evenwel v. Abbott case,
determining whether or not electoral districts should be drawn based on
the number of eligible voters or a state's total population. (Photo:
iStock Photos)
The Supreme Court will trek into a redistricting case this fall that
will settle the contested meaning of the “one person, one vote”
principle that has shaped American elections for over half a century.
At hand is whether electoral districts should continue to be drawn
using a state’s total population, which is the current precedent, or if
the system should shift to account only for eligible voters.
The two Texans who filed the case, Evenwel v. Abbott, argued the weight
of their votes was diluted because the state used raw population to
draw its electoral districts, which included a large number of
ineligible voters such as immigrants legally in the U.S. who do not
hold citizenship and illegal immigrants.
The plaintiffs live in a district with a greater number of qualified
voters than several other districts in the state, which they contend
leaves them with about half the vote of others in their state...
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