If you are not a citizen then you are not a member of the POPULATION.
College students are transients.
So are tourists.
So are migrant workers.
Illegals should be considered invisible as far as calculating is concerned...as well as their children who were illegals born in the us. The children have dual citizenship and should be shipped back home with mamma and papa.
This will have more effects than just redistricting for state elections. Allotment of congressional seats would also be affected.
The same issue which at one time caused slaves to be counted as 3/5 of a person.
Is it constitutional to count voters instead of population when drawing up congressional districts? I thought the constitution wanted it by population. So in theory you could have a congressional district with 0 eligible voters. I side with the constitution over common sense.
The question in Texas is whether, when cobbling together legislative districts, for the purposes of meeting federal voting rights standards, the new legislature counts total populations or total eligible populations, i.e., voting age populations.
To cite one of many possible examples, and though the Court is now rumored to be having second thoughts, in Indiana a few years ago the criteria set for qualifying as a "Majority Minority" district in many states became 50 percent "plus one" voting age Black/Non-Hispanic.
The Democrats and their auxiliary cadres, the Sorosistas tried very hard (particularly in the South) to advocate what they call "an Influence District," with standards far below 50 percent TOTAL VOTING AGE BLACK POP, e.g. 40 percent and lower, for the purposes of spreading this dependable voting block over a greater number of districts, and secondarily to allow White socialists to win Democrat primaries to go on to be elected to represent large and dependable black populations.
The self-appointed Black Ruling Classes and grievance hustlers argued in favor of this criteria out of loyalty to the Democrat-Socialist party interests over and above any "race consciousness."
This case is a hair-splitting attempt to dilute the 50 percent-plus one definition of a minority-majority district, to create "influence districts" yet again, by getting the Court to redefine their criteria.
The Socialists and their cadres will do anything... Anything.
Arizona’s congressional delegation is usually 5 Democrats and 4 Republicans.
RINO McSally won by 300 votes to make it 5 Republicans.
The ultimate decision is the swing vote Independent (usually closet something else) on the committe of 1 GOP, 1 Dem and 1 Independent.