WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday, to hear a case that may mark a major shift in the way voting districts are drawn by counting just citizens who can legally vote, not the total population.
Some voters in Texas claimed their ballots carried less weight than those in state Senate districts that included large numbers of illegal immigrants. Voters claim the state of Texas violated their constitutional protection of "one person, one vote" by allocating its state senators based on total population, rather than on the number of eligible voters. About once a decade, political district are redrawn based on census data, which counts the total population, including non-citizens and illegal immigrants.