State Legislature Redistricting

[Kevinstat]

Some of you might be interested in viewing the Minnesota Senate's page on Mississippi Redistricting Cases:  the 1990s.  The first legislative election in Mississippi in the 2000s was in 2003 so the state, or the courts had it been necessary, had more time to redraw the states legislative districts.  Mississippi elected Legislators for what was supposed to be a four-year term in 1991 from districts drawn in 1982, but when a plan was enacted and approved by the Justice Department the next year, the U.S. District Court for Southern District of Mississippi federal ordered a legislative election for a three-year term on the regular primary and general election dates in 1992.

[Kevinstat]

I've copied the Vermont discussion into the Vermont Legislative Redistricting thread (formerly the Vermont State Senate Redistricting thread).

A moderator might have been able to just move the posts over, but I think this works okay.

[Kevinstat]

Here's an amazing map of the proposed New York Senate districts, showing population deviation. Every single upstate district is underpopulated and every single NYC/Long Island district is overpopulated.

Is that counting prisoners as residents of the prison they're at (as the U.S. census does and has been used in the past, and as some like BigSkyBob are saying the state is still compelled to do by it's state constitution) or as residents of where they last resided before going to prision?