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

[Nate Persily]

I deal with many of the questions involved in this case in a Cardozo Law Review article --- "THE LAW OF THE CENSUS: HOW TO COUNT, WHAT TO COUNT, WHOM TO COUNT, AND WHERE TO COUNT THEM"  -- available at the following
link:
http://cardozolawreview.com/Joomla1.5/content/32-3/Persily.32-3.pdf
The issues about the ACS data that Michael McDonald raises are very serious ones for this case (and discussed in the article).  People seem to think there is a national registry of citizens somewhere -- there
isn't.  And the survey-based data on Citizen Voting Age Population can pose serious problems for small districts.   It would be ironic if the Court, which not too long ago said sampling was illegal for apportionment purposes, now says it is constitutionally mandatory for
redistricting.
nate
 
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Nathaniel Persily

James B. McClatchy Professor of Law

Stanford Law School

Stanford, CA 94305-8610

(917) 570-3223

nate at persily.com

www.persily.com
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