[EL] Splitting rural counties in Congressional Redistricting

[Jeff Wice]

Vince,

You should review state constitutional or statutory guidelines for
congressional redistricting, if any. While many states have laws limiting or
regulating county splits for senate and state house redistricting, there are
fewer state rules for congressional redistricting.

The NCSL Redistricting Law 2010 handbook includes charts outlining each
state congressional and state legislative law. You can also access this
information at www.ncsl.org and follow hotlinks to "legislatures and
elections" and "redistricting" to "redistricting law" or try this:

http://geo.commissions.leg.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?zoomsize=2&map=%2Fms4w%2FApache%2Fhtdocs%2FRedProf%2FRedProf.map&program=%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmapserv&root=%2FRedProf&map_web_imagepath=%2Fms4w%2FApache%2Fhtdocs%2Ftmp%2F&map_web_imageurl=%2Ftmp%2F&map_web_template=RedProf.html

Jeff Wice




On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Vince Leibowitz
<vince.leibowitz at gmail.com>wrote:

> Could someone please remind me the "rules" (as established by case law
> precedents, unless there are other guidelines I'm not aware of) relating to
> the splitting of counties between two Congressional districts when those
> counties are rural? I seem to remember a minimum or maximum population
> threshold?
>
> Also, what have the courts done recently, if anything, with regard to split
> counties when one half of the split pairs a portion of the county with
> communities of dissimilar interest?
>
> Vince Leibowitz
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