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...Senate Majority Leader Walter Mahoney and Assembly Speaker Joseph Carlino, both of whose names had become synonymous with entrenched power. It all spelled trouble for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who had only one consolation: Rocky is planning to call a special session of the present legislature in mid-December to redistrict the state and may at least be able to preserve what remains of Republican strength...
...ILLINOIS. Because of failure to redistrict, all 177 house seats were up for grabs in an at-large election. With 118 candidates of each party listed side by side on a bath-towel-sized ballot, most voters predictably took the easy way out, voted a straight ticket and elected all 118 Democrats, a two-thirds majority of the house. The senate, though, still has a Republican majority...
Meanwhile, legislatures still play the redistricting game, though now the rules have been stiffened. Districts must be "nearly" equal in population, although the Court has not said how near that is in practice. Even if they are allowed to vary as much as 20 per cent from the average size of the state's districts, twenty-eight states, with 306 representatives will have to redistrict. In both Georgia and Texas, districts varied much more than 20 per cent; in Michigan, a lower court threw out districts that varied from the average by twenty-six per cent. The New York Legislature...
...professors agreed that the decision will probably not have any great influence on this year's congressional elections. Each felt that most of the states will not have time to redistrict before November. "These things do not move at lightning-like speeds," Sutherland said...
...politics in dozens of states. In 44 states, legislative districting systems permit less than 40% of the population to elect a majority of the legislature; in 13 states a third or less of the population can elect legislative majorities. Many state constitutions make no provision at all for redistricting (Vermont has not reapportioned its lower house since 1793), and 15 states have ignored constitutional requirements to redistrict periodically...