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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (32590)	4/18/2005 6:08:47 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Armpit doesn't have a clue, but the constitution leaves it entirely up to state legislatures to decide how to draw districts and how often to redraw them. Before computers made gerrymandering into a very precise art, an art practiced to ridiculous and illegal (as proven in court) extremes by democrat-controlled legislatures, including in TX, NC and GA that I am aware of, the common practice was to redistrict every ten years, when new census numbers became available. Recently, however, federal courts have tossed democrat-drawn maps as violations of the voting rights act, forcing a break from that ten-year tradition. In any case, there is absolutely nothing illegal about a state legislature deciding in any given year that a redistricting is called for and voting to do it. AS is just too ignorant of the law (and life) to distinguish between things he simply opposes on partisan grounds and things that are in conflict with the law.