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85 Miss. L.J. 1271 (2016-2017)
Coloring outside the Lines: Erasing One-Person, One-Vote & Voting Rights Act Line-Drawing Dilemmas by Erasing District Lines

handle is hein.journals/mislj85 and id is 1323 raw text is: COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES: ERASING ONE-PERSON, ONE-VOTE & VOTING RIGHTS ACT LINE-DRAWING DILEMMAS BY ERASING DISTRICT LINES Steven J. Mulroy* INTRODUCTION....................................1272 I. EVENWEL, AND THE TENSION IT REPRESENTS....................................1276 A. General.................................1276 B. Competing Views........................1278 II. THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT...................1281 A. General.................................1281 B. Inconsistent Application .....................1283 C. Implications .................... ................1288 III. ALTERNATIVES TO SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS ............................ ............1291 A. The Three Main Systems..........................1291 B. The Threshold of Exclusion........................ 1294 C. Advantages of Alternative Systems .......................... .......... 1295 D. Where Alternative Systems Are Particularly Appropriate................. 1298 IV. ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS AS THE SOLUTION ........................................ 1299 A. One-Person, One-Vote ................... ....1299 B. Voting Rights Act .................. ...........1301 CONCLUSION. ............................. .......... 1304 1271 * Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Humphreys School of Law, University of Memphis. The author participated as trial counsel in the United States v. Village of Port Chester case discussed herein, as well as in the Johnson v. De Grandy and Hays v. Louisiana cases.