[EL] Evenwel question

[Scarberry, Mark]

Does anyone think the rule should be different for state and local districting versus congressional districting? That is, should it be different  with regard to whether use of the number of citizens, rather than total population, is permissible (or mandatory)?

Mark

Mark S. Scarberry
Professor of Law
Pepperdine Univ. School of Law



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Subject: Re: [EL] Evenwel question

Thanks.  Do any states exclude aliens and/or minors for either state or federal election districts?

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Jason Torchinsky <jtorchinsky at hvjlaw.com<mailto:jtorchinsky at hvjlaw.com>> wrote:
A handful of states adjust from the U.S. Census numbers for prison population.  See here:  http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/solutions.html#states

Their research indicates that a number of local jurisdictions simply disregard prison population.

 - Jason

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Jason Torchinsky



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Subject: [EL] Evenwel question

I apologize if the answer to this is somewhere in the pleadings, but I haven't run across it and was hoping some of you would know:

How many, if any, states currently use anything other than total population (census #s) to draw roughly equal districts for election to state office?  To draw congressional districts?  Has the practice changed at all over the past half-century, since Wesberry/Reynolds/Burns?

Thanks in advance.

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