[EL] In the spirit of the old listserv

[Gaddie, Ronald K.]

This is not entirely on point, but in the Larios congressional litigation, the court accepted deviation in the congressional map in order to minimize precinct splits.

There's just not much out there, in part because we all assumed 'safe harbor' before 2001 and then Larios landed with both feet in 2004.  If anyone had a notion of how to answer this question, it would be Mark Braden.

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Subject: Re: [EL] In the spirit of the old listserv

Continuing that spirit, I'll toss out a one-person, one-vote issue somewhat related to Larios.  I am looking for instances in which courts or shcolars have addressed unbalanced population deviations within the10% population deviation standard for redistricting plans -- that is, where , rather than staying within plus or minus 5%, a plan has with a range of, say, plus 2 minus 8 -- and where the imbalance does not flow from adherence to county boundaries.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Gerken, Heather <heather.gerken at yale.edu<mailto:heather.gerken at yale.edu>> wrote:
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