Colorado requires statewide initiatives to obtain the signatures of 2% of the number of registered voters in each of the 35 State Senate districts. On August 21, the Tenth Circuit upheld that requirement. Semple v Griswold, 18-1123. Here is the decision.
The U.S. District Court had invalidated the law because it felt that “one person, one vote” principles require that the base should be the number of inhabitants. But the Tenth Circuit said that “one person, one vote” is not necessarily attached to the use of either population, or the number of registered voters; either is permitted.
The vote was 2-1. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
UNEQUAL numbers of registered voters in ALL districts —
too difficult for math MORONS to DETECT.
VOTERS VOTE- NOT NON-VOTERS – A TOTAL failure to follow up on Gray v Sanders, 372 U.S. 368 (1963) in the 1964 SCOTUS gerrymander cases.
Colorado should apprtion districts on the basis of registered voters, or alternatively weight the vote of legislators on the basis of registered voters or citizens over 18.
If this were done more natural constituencies could be used.