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how would non-voters affect voting results?

• Terr_ 1y ago
  Not the results, but the weight given to the results. Places with a greater population tend to get more representatives in a state or federal legislature, all else being equal. This makes sense for minors (part of voter-households, to be voters later) and noncitizens (either in voter-households, or at least with freedom of travel) but it becomes a perverse-incentive when we start talking about people forced to be in a specific region by a government that put them there and won't let them leave.
• whitexn--g28h 1y ago
  The less voters you have in your district the easier it is to gerrymander a guaranteed win.
• mikestew 1y ago
  Voting districts: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039643346/redistricting-prison-gerrymandering-definition-census-congressional-legislative https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039643346/redistricting-pris...
• teaearlgraycold 1y ago
  In the constitution it says: > Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons "Free persons" in this case meant those not enslaved for life, so it includes incarcerated people. Representation apportionment also includes illegal immigrants under this clause.