A constitutional irony

[bendog]

counting only the eligible voters?

U.S. top court to hear one person one vote challenge in Texas case - Yahoo News

 

[jwoodie]

Apportioning legislative districts on the number of persons living within them was based on the assumption that eligible voters would be a representative sample of the general population. The huge influx of non-citizens into certain districts has turned that assumption on its head. In former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's district in California, less than 20% of the population were eligible voters. As a result, he could be elected with half the votes needed in other districts and could divert his campaign contributions to other politicians. Democracy at its finest.

 

[bendog]

Apportioning legislative districts on the number of persons living within them was based on the assumption that eligible voters would be a representative sample of the general population. The huge influx of non-citizens into certain districts has turned that assumption on its head. In former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's district in California, less than 20% of the population were eligible voters. As a result, he could be elected with half the votes needed in other districts and could divert his campaign contributions to other politicians. Democracy at its finest.

Three-Fifths Compromise - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

And NOW it's unconstitutional?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

The entire country should have a grid laid over it and those are the districts.

 

[g5000]

In former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's district in California, less than 20% of the population were eligible voters.

Link?

 

[g5000]

The entire country should have a grid laid over it and those are the districts.

So if I live in a grid district that has a population of ten eligible voters, I only have to convince six of them to vote for me. Meanwhile, someone who lives in a same sized grid that has one million eligible voters has to bust his ass to convince 500,001 people to vote for him.

 

[JakeStarkey]

One vote one voter has to apportioned only by those eligible to vote.

Illegals have no right to representation in terms of apportionment.

 

[bendog]

One vote one voter has to apportioned only by those eligible to vote.

Illegals have no right to representation in terms of apportionment.

Yes, but historically we DID apportion representatives based upon people who could not legally vote and who were not citizens.

 

[JakeStarkey]

One vote one voter has to apportioned only by those eligible to vote.

Illegals have no right to representation in terms of apportionment.

Yes, but historically we DID apportion representatives based upon people who could not legally vote and who were not citizens.

And that will have to change. Illegals are human beings, but they should not count for representation. This is just stupid. 230 years ago we had slave masters fighting to count slaves, and we have far left libbies fighting to count illegals.

 

[jwoodie]

One vote one voter has to apportioned only by those eligible to vote.

Illegals have no right to representation in terms of apportionment.

Yes, but historically we DID apportion representatives based upon people who could not legally vote and who were not citizens.

True, but that was a compromise at the federal level regard State representation, not legislative district composition.