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A lawsuit filed by conservatives in Texas accepted for consideration by the Supreme Court aims to redefine Congressional districts by the number of eligible voters rather than the number of residents. An analysis of numbers of eligible voters and their rates of participation in each district by Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight shows Republicans would stand to gain a political edge.
From the story:
“A move [to count] only eligible voters … would drastically shift political power away from the urban environs with minorities and noncitizens, and toward whiter areas with larger native-born populations. That’s bad news for Democrats: Of the 50 congressional districts with the lowest shares of eligible voters, 41 are occupied by Democrats…”
Read the full investigation here.