| 11. | Race-based legislative districting should be outlawed.
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| 12. | This districting system is similar to those of the Idaho and Washington State Senate.
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| 13. | That is so even though race may well have been considered in the districting process.
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| 14. | Again, the courts over many years kept hands off the issue of legislative districting.
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| 15. | The census is used as a basis for apportioning federal aid and in congressional districting.
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| 16. | It did not specifically allow such districting.
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| 17. | Benoit said the ruling will make it harder for legislatures to draw new districting lines.
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| 18. | The county still plays a role in administrative districting by various governmental agencies in Massachusetts.
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| 19. | Realistically, no districting plan could.
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| 20. | Legislative districting is highly political business,
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