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Why would there be any reason to draw voting districts based on anything other than the population of CITIZENS?? We are the ones who vote and are represented by our elected officials, so why should anyone outside that group be included in the decisions on voting districts?? Non-citizens have no voice in our gov't, just the protection of our laws and that's the way it needs to be (and is in pretty much every country on the planet).
Amen and amen. Each state should divide up the districts equally either by land area or by population and this should be done as fairly and equitably as possible to gain equal numbers in the voting districts rather than favor this or that demographic. And to divide the districts among those eligible to vote seems an honest and fair way to do it too by redistributing power throughout the entire voting public instead of concentrating it in the large urban areas.