How the Supreme Court’s ‘One Person, One Vote’ Case Could Boost Republican Clout

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.

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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. More...

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