[EL] The Supreme Court's Decision to Decide Whether It's One Person, One Vote or One Voter, One Vote

[David A. Holtzman]

And what of disqualified felons?

Also, in case anybody else is wondering, here is a definition of 
"Suspense" in Texas:
"A "suspense voter" is a voter known to have an
incorrect or outdated address. The county has sent
the voter a form to obtain a new current address,
but no response has been received. The voter is,
however, considered to be an active voter for
voting purposes."
http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/pi.pdf

   - dah


On 5/26/2015 1:01 PM, Andrew M. Grossman wrote:
> Note that the Evenwel jurisdictional statement (at 10) describes three 
> possible measures: Citizen Voting Age Population, Total Voter 
> Registration, and Non-Suspense Voter Registration. The first, of 
> course, would not run into problems regarding voter registration or 
> the "political activism" of different groups. The complaint claims a 
> constitutional right "to a vote of approximately equal weight to that 
> of all other electors in the same state," and it may well be that any 
> of those measures would satisfy that right.
>
> It may also be worth noting that the plaintiffs do not ask the Court 
> to choose between equal voting weight and equal representation. The 
> complaint alleges that Texas could achieve approximately equal voter 
> weight "without departing from the goal of equalizing total population."
>
> --
> Andrew Grossman
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Jon Roland 
> <jon.roland at constitution.org <mailto:jon.roland at constitution.org>> wrote:
>
>     The problem for basing representation on voting population rather
>     than resident population is measuring it. Turnout in the last
>     election doesn't work, because that is a highly volatile subset of
>     qualified voters. About the only measure that might work would be
>     numbers registered to vote, but that number can change quickly
>     from one election cycle to the next, and may include many no
>     longer qualified as of the date the district lines are drawn, so
>     then the issues become how to weed the lists and how to decide the
>     cutoff date for the number. Census counts might not be strictly
>     constitutional, but they are far more practical.
>
>     But it would provide an incentive to register more voters, which
>     is not necessarily a good thing. Do we really want even more
>     low-information voters?
>
>     Or we could go to the Australian system and register everyone
>     qualified, and perhaps make voting mandatory.
>
>     In any case, an expensive proposition.
>
>     -- Jon
>
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